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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Cottonwood School

Orangeville, Utah

NCES ID
490027000177
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Cottonwood School is a public primary school in Orangeville, Utah, run by Emery District. It enrols 159 students — the 81950th largest of 1,118 public schools in Utah.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

159students

81950th nationally, tied with 104

Teachers

8.0FTE

85947th nationally, tied with 1,326

Students per teacher

19.9students

78356th nationally, tied with 322

Free or reduced-price lunch

57.2%percent

43300th nationally, tied with 79

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Emery District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Emery High642 students
  2. 2San Rafael Middle School242 students
  3. 3Huntington School239 students
  4. 4Ferron School212 students
  5. 5Canyon View Middle School200 students
  6. 6Cleveland School181 students
  7. 7Cottonwood School159 students
  8. 8Castle Dale School145 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Utah median across 1,118 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−70.4%
  • Teachers−68.0%
  • Students per teacher−10.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+99.3%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.