About Canyons District
Canyons District is a public school system serving Salt Lake County, Utah, based in Sandy. It serves 32,688 students across 50 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #7 largest of Utah’s 155 school systems.
Size and structure
Canyons District enrolls 32,688 students in 50 schools — an average of about 654 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #7 of 155 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Canyons District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (32,688 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Canyons District employs about 1,531 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 21.4:1 — below the Utah average of about 21.6:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 3,574.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Utah funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Canyons District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Utah publishes the Utah School Report Card, reporting academic achievement, growth, English-learner progress and, for high schools, graduation and postsecondary readiness rather than a single letter grade. Look up Canyons District on the Utah School Report Card.
Accreditation status
Utah requires its secondary schools to be accredited by a regional body — in practice Cognia — while the Utah State Board of Education sets the state-specific assurances the accreditor enforces (Administrative Rule R277-410). Look up Canyons District in the free Cognia registry.
Canyons District vs. Utah
See every Utah district side by side in the Utah directory.
Look up Canyons District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):