Original Research by School Decision on Woods Cross High
Woods Cross High is a traditional public high school in the Davis District, serving grades ten through twelve only. It is the sole comprehensive high school in the city of Woods Cross, a low-density residential suburb along the Wasatch Front north of Salt Lake City. The school building and campus are located on a main thoroughfare, set within a city that has no traditional downtown core and is oriented around single-family homes and automobile travel. The city’s housing supply is very tight, with low vacancy and home values that sit above the national average, reflecting a generally affluent suburban market. Rent in the area also runs above the national figure. This is a commuter community: Woods Cross residents have a substantial average travel time to work, many likely heading to Salt Lake City or Ogden. The city itself is stable in population, with very slow recent growth, so the school’s feeder neighborhoods are well established.
The student body is sizable for a school that covers only three grade levels. A substantial majority of students identify as white, with a moderate share identifying as Hispanic and small shares of Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Black, and multiracial students. About one in six students qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, a relatively modest share that aligns with the community’s overall income level. The school is not a charter or magnet, and there is no Title I status reported in the available data. The district has a change worth knowing: in 2022, Davis District opened Farmington High School to relieve overcrowding elsewhere, which shifted feeder boundaries in the Farmington and Kaysville area. It is not clear from the provided information whether that directly affected Woods Cross High’s attendance zone, but a parent moving into the area may want to confirm current boundaries with the district office. Additionally, the district expanded optional full-day kindergarten starting in the 2023-24 school year under a statewide law—a change that affects elementary schools, not the high school itself, but signals a district that has adopted broader early childhood options.
What is most striking about the available information for Woods Cross High is what is not present. State testing results, a graduation rate, and a chronic absenteeism rate were all absent from the data this profile draws on. The neighbor comparison, which would have placed the school relative to other high schools in Davis County, could not be run because the underlying numbers were missing. A parent shopping for academic performance metrics will find no reported proficiency rates or graduation figures here. The school’s grade band (ten through twelve) includes grades that are typically tested under Utah’s state assessment program, but no results appear in the source materials used for this account. The same goes for course access information—such as Advanced Placement or Career and Technical Education offerings—and staffing ratios or discipline data. Those fields were simply not provided. It is possible that some of these data exist on the school’s own website or in state report cards, but they were not captured in the sources consulted for this profile.
For a family weighing this school, the community context is clear: a suburban, mid-to-upper income area with stable housing, a commuter lifestyle, and a school that draws from a well-established set of neighborhoods. The student body is predominantly white, with some diversity in the Hispanic and Pacific Islander share. The absence of academic outcome data is a significant gap. A parent would want to look into this further with the school or the Davis District directly—ask about state test scores, graduation rates, college-going patterns, and program breadth. The school’s size suggests it likely offers a range of options, but without confirmed information, that remains a question to be answered by the school itself.
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