About Iron District
Iron District is a public school system serving Iron County, Utah, based in Cedar City. It serves 14,125 students across 18 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a town: remote district. By enrollment it is the #12 largest of Utah’s 155 school systems.
Size and structure
Iron District enrolls 14,125 students in 18 schools — an average of about 785 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #12 of 155 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Iron District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (14,125 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
Iron District employs about 531 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 26.6:1 — above the Utah average of about 21.6:1. Total district staff is roughly 1,217.
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 Iron 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 Iron 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 Iron District in the free Cognia registry.
Iron District vs. Utah
See every Utah district side by side in the Utah directory.
Look up Iron 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):