South Summit High

South Summit High in Kamas, Utah, is a public school serving 486 students in grades 9–12 in the mountain communities of the South Summit District. The school ranks 69th of 139 Utah high schools, placing it around the 50th percentile, and has recently improved after two lower-ranked years. Its 19.7:1 student-teacher ratio is moderate for the area. Families should note that performance has varied considerably over time: the school ranked as high as 34th in 2021–22 but has not yet returned to that level.

Mathematics is the clearest success story. In 2025–26, proficiency reached 45.2% in ninth-grade math and 34.9% in 10th-grade math, both above state results and substantially higher than the school’s 2023–24 levels. Tenth-grade English language arts and science were also slightly above state results. However, the school remained below the district in all six reported subject-grade measures, with the largest state-level concern in ninth-grade science, where proficiency was 38.5% compared with 49.7% statewide. Graduation was 89.5%, close to Utah’s 89.8%, but below the school’s results in the prior three years. The dropout rate rose to 8.1%, while chronic absenteeism improved to 16.3%—better than the state’s 23.8% but above the district’s 15.2%.

Nearby schools provide useful context. Similarly sized North Summit High ranks 26th statewide and performs better in all comparable test areas, while also reporting lower absenteeism. Larger Park City High and Wasatch High also have stronger overall outcomes, particularly in English and science. Still, South Summit’s math results are competitive with those larger schools in some grades. The main priorities are sustaining math gains, strengthening ninth-grade English and science, reducing absenteeism, and monitoring the recent changes in graduation and dropout rates.