Summary
Canyon View Middle is a public school in Cedar City, Utah, serving grades 6–8 and 948 students in the Iron District, a growing area district ranked around the 52nd statewide percentile.
Canyon View is an above-midpoint Utah middle school, ranking 76th of 217 schools in 2025–2026, at the 65th percentile. Its overall standing is nearly identical to nearby Cedar Middle, which ranked 75th. Canyon View’s clearest academic strength is science: approximately 59.6% of students were proficient overall, and the school exceeded state results in all three tested grades. Grade 8 science was especially strong at 61.2%, more than ten points above the Utah average. Mathematics averaged approximately 42.9%, slightly ahead of Cedar’s 40.7%, with Canyon View showing notable improvement since 2022–2023. Its grade 8 mathematics result, 41.1%, was about 7.7 points higher than Cedar’s. English language arts was essentially even between the schools, although Canyon View’s grade 7 result is a relative weakness.
The school also shows strong results for students from low-income backgrounds, whose effectiveness ranking reached the 88th percentile statewide in 2025–2026; its ranking for Hispanic students was at the 81st percentile. Canyon View’s student-teacher ratio improved to 19.0 in 2024–2025, slightly better than Cedar’s 19.9. Attendance has improved substantially, with chronic absenteeism falling from 23.2% in 2021–2022 to 15.3% in 2024–2025, below Utah’s 23.8% rate. However, it remains higher than the district’s 14.4% and far above Cedar’s reported 0.5%. Overall, Canyon View appears stable and generally effective, with science, improving math, and support for economically disadvantaged students standing out most, while attendance and grade 7 academics merit continued attention.
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