Summary
Manti High is a public school in Manti, Utah, serving grades 9–12 and 690 students as part of the South Sanpete District. The school’s latest statewide ranking is 39th out of 139 Utah high schools, placing it in the 72nd percentile and earning four stars. This represents a strong rebound from rankings in the 38th percentile in 2022–23 and 46th percentile in 2023–24. Manti’s district ranks 34th out of 92 Utah districts, or the 63rd percentile statewide.
Manti’s strongest outcomes include graduation, persistence, attendance improvement, and science achievement. Its 2024–25 graduation rate was 94.0%, above both the district’s 92.7% and the state’s 89.8%, while its dropout rate was 4.2%, about half the statewide rate of 8.5%. Chronic absenteeism improved substantially to 14.8%, down from 25.0% in 2021–22 and below both the district and state rates. Academically, ninth-grade math proficiency was 52.6%, compared with 39.4% statewide, and science proficiency exceeded the state rate in both tested grades. Tenth-grade math remains the clearest challenge: 26.2% of students were proficient, below the statewide 29.4%.
Compared with nearby Gunnison Valley High, Manti is much larger—690 students versus 319—and has a higher student-teacher ratio, 20.1 compared with 14.5. Even so, Manti ranked 39th statewide in 2025–26, ahead of Gunnison’s 78th-place ranking, and outperformed it in five of six reported subject-grade comparisons. Manti’s largest advantage was ninth-grade math, where proficiency was 52.6% versus 28.9% at Gunnison. Gunnison had lower chronic absenteeism, at 10.2%, and higher tenth-grade ELA proficiency. Manti also stands out for its effectiveness serving students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, ranking in the 90th percentile statewide.
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