Duchesne High

Duchesne High is a public school serving grades 7–12 in the rural community of Duchesne, Utah, with 408 students and a student-teacher ratio of 19.3:1. The school is part of the Duchesne District, which ranks in the 27th percentile statewide. Duchesne High is larger than nearby Altamont High, which enrolls 273 students and has a lower student-teacher ratio of 16.8:1.

The most important concern is the school’s recent overall performance and student persistence. Duchesne High ranked in the 40th percentile in 2022–2023 but fell to the 13th percentile in 2025–2026, ranking 121st out of 139 Utah schools; Altamont ranked 96th and in the 31st percentile. Duchesne’s 2024–2025 graduation rate was 84.8%, below Utah’s 89.8% but above the district’s 81.6%. Its dropout rate was 15.2%, nearly twice the state’s 8.5%, while chronic absenteeism reached 27.3%. That was better than the district’s 31.0% but substantially higher than Altamont’s 16.0%. These attendance and persistence measures are important for families evaluating day-to-day engagement and the likelihood that students will remain on track.

Academic results are uneven rather than uniformly weak. Eighth grade was a bright spot: 62.8% of students were proficient in science, 47.7% in English language arts, and 45.5% in mathematics, with science and mathematics exceeding state results. Duchesne also outperformed Altamont across the reported eighth-grade subjects. However, seventh-grade results trailed Altamont in every tested subject, and mathematics remains the clearest ongoing challenge, including 24.6% proficiency in seventh grade and 21.9% in ninth grade. High-school English language arts was comparatively stronger, with 38.2% proficiency in ninth grade. Families may want to ask about math support, seventh-grade transition programs, attendance interventions, and efforts to reduce dropout risk while building on the school’s stronger eighth-grade and ELA outcomes.