Summary:
ZIP code 84720 has three high schools serving grades 9–12: Cedar City High, Success SUU, and Launch High, serving 1,792 students in the Cedar City area. The schools offer distinctly different profiles: Cedar City High is the large traditional high school, while Success SUU and Launch High are much smaller. Cedar City High and Launch High are part of the Iron District, while Success SUU belongs to Success Academy.
Launch High has the strongest overall academic profile among schools with current test results. It ranked 25th of 139 Utah schools in 2025–26 and averaged about 52% proficiency across six reported tests, outperforming Cedar City High in every comparison. Launch exceeded the state comparison in five of six results and had especially strong grade 9 English, grade 9 mathematics, and grade 10 science scores. Its chronic absenteeism rate was only 1.5%, and its student-teacher ratio was 23.0. Its main academic concern was grade 10 mathematics, where proficiency was below the state comparison.
Cedar City High stands out for its 97.7% graduation rate, well above both the district and state rates, but it has weaker recent indicators: its ranking fell to 72nd of 139, chronic absenteeism was 17.6%, and its current test-score average was about 41%. Success SUU has the strongest district standing—4th of 92 districts—and the lowest absenteeism rate at 0.5%, but the available data do not include school-level graduation or testing results, so a complete comparison is not possible. Across the area, mathematics, particularly grade 10 mathematics, is the clearest shared challenge.
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