The top reported proficiency rate is 74% in English language arts. The lowest is 59% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Academy for Math Engineering & Science
Academy for Math Engineering & Science is a single-high-school district serving grades 9 through 12 in Salt Lake County. Because the district operates only one school, the high school's profile is the district's profile. It functions as a small, selective-admission high school that draws students from across the county, not as a typical geographic attendance zone. A lottery regulates entry, and the school operates under an enrollment cap, which gives it a controlled and competitive admissions process.
The academic program centers on a partnership with the University of Utah, providing early-college coursework integrated into the high school experience. That focus on college readiness, particularly in STEM fields, is reflected in the school's formal name and partnership structure. On the available state testing data, which comes from a single year's results, the school's students performed well above the midpoint among Salt Lake County's districts. Overall proficiency across tested subjects placed the district in the top quartile of the county's districts. At that time, math proficiency was solid, English language arts proficiency was stronger, and science proficiency rates were lower than the other two subjects. Given the age of this assessment data, a parent may want to ask the school for more recent test results or other evidence of current academic performance.
Enrollment totals a few hundred students, with reasonably even numbers across each of the four high school grades. The student body is majority white, with a Hispanic population that is visible but not dominant, and smaller shares of Asian, multiracial, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Black, and American Indian or Alaska Native students. The school did not report data on students with disabilities or English learners, so the shape of those populations is unknown. Chronic absenteeism runs at a rate that is low relative to other Salt Lake County districts, falling in the top quartile for low absenteeism. This suggests a student body that tends to show up consistently, which may be linked to the self-selection of families who seek out a specialized STEM school.
Per-pupil spending at the district level sits above the midpoint among the county's districts, unsurprising for a small, specialized high school that must maintain its own administrative infrastructure and partnerships. The comparison set of county districts spans a wide range, from very large comprehensive districts to small charter and specialized ones like this, so the context is broad.
No parent-relevant changes or new developments at the district were found in recent public reporting. The school's lottery and cap structure means that admission is not guaranteed for any family who resides in the county. For a student with strong math and science interests who thrives in a small-school environment centered on college-level coursework, this is a targeted option. For a family seeking a neighborhood high school with comprehensive offerings across all programs and ability levels, this specialized model would fit differently. The absence of recent state test data, special-education and English-learner counts, and any information about the school's discipline climate or course access beyond the partnership means that the full picture is not complete from this record alone.
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