Summary
Whitehorse High is a small public school serving 303 students in grades 7–12 in Montezuma Creek, a rural community in southeastern Utah, and is part of the San Juan District. There are no other schools within 20 miles, so the most useful comparisons are with district and Utah statewide results. The school serves a particularly high-need student population, with 97.03% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–25. Its student-teacher ratio was 16.9:1, close to its recent range.
Whitehorse’s main challenge is academic achievement. In 2025–26, proficiency was below both district and state levels across middle-school ELA, math, and science and in nearly every reported high-school subject. For example, only 6.5% of 8th graders were proficient in math and science, compared with 26% and 37.4% across the district. High-school math proficiency was reported as Under 9.4% in 9th grade and Under 8.7% in 10th grade. The 7th-grade results should be read carefully because math was reported as 10–30%, while the school’s science result was suppressed. These persistent results help explain the school’s ranking of 139th out of 139 Utah schools, at the 0th percentile.
Completion and attendance outcomes are considerably stronger than test performance. The graduation rate was 93.2% in 2023–24, above the district’s 90.5% and Utah’s 88.8%; the dropout rate was 6.8%, below both comparison rates. Chronic absenteeism also improved substantially, falling from 41.1% in 2021–22 to 21.8% in 2024–25, below the district’s 32.3% and Utah’s 23.8%. These trends suggest that the school has made progress keeping students connected and enrolled, while foundational literacy, mathematics, and science skills remain urgent priorities. The available spending figure, $18,211 per student, is from 2018–19 and should not be viewed as current.
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