Most traditional high schools in Salt Lake County didn’t get better last year — but they didn’t really get worse, either.
The Utah Board of Education released its annual school report cards Thursday, and according to an analysis by The Salt Lake Tribune, most of the scores along the Wasatch Front stayed the same. “We were really static this year,” acknowledged Darin Nielsen, the state’s assistant superintendent of student learning.
As far as education rankings go, that consistency is not a bad thing. Find full results at utahschoolgrades.schools.utah.gov.
The high school assessments do not include a single letter grade — under the new dashboard system started in 2018 — and instead have four rankings based on achievement on standardized tests, growth in proficiency on those, how much English learners improved and how well students are prepared for college.