Summary:
ZIP code 84116 has one listed high school, Salt Lake Center for Science Education, a small Salt Lake City–area school serving grades 6–12 with 368 students.
For parents, the school’s strongest features are graduation, attendance, and student persistence. Its graduation rate is 94.2%, above Utah’s 89.8% statewide rate, while its dropout rate is lower at 5.8% compared with 8.5% statewide. Chronic absenteeism is also substantially better than the state average, at 14.3% versus 23.8%. These results suggest that students generally remain engaged, attend regularly, and complete high school. The school has a 16.8-to-1 student-teacher ratio, and 43.75% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, providing useful context about the range of student needs served. Because this is the only high school in the ZIP code, parents cannot compare it directly with another nearby school in the same ZIP.
Academic results are more mixed. In 2025–2026, 10th-grade students performed above the state in English language arts and science, with proficiency rates of 51.8% and 47.1%, respectively. Mathematics is the clearest concern: proficiency was 20.2% in 9th grade and 26.6% in 10th grade, both below state results, especially the 19.2-point 9th-grade gap. The school’s ELA and science results also fell sharply from the previous year, when performance was exceptionally strong, and its ranking dropped from 4th of 138 schools to 87th of 139. Parents may want to ask about recent curriculum, staffing, testing, and math-support changes. Overall, the school appears strongest in attendance and graduation outcomes, while academic consistency—particularly in mathematics—deserves close attention.
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