Annual share of public-school students classified as English Learners.
Between 2011 and 2024, the classified-EL share rose from 6.4% to 8.7%. Observations through fall 2021 are from NCES; observations for fall 2024 are from the Utah state education agency (Utah State Board of Education, Fall Enrollment Count 2024-25). State-agency methodology may differ from NCES; see the note below.
NCES Digest, Table 204.20
Utah state education agency
Methodology note
Utah State Board of Education, October 1 fall snapshot (58,419 EL students of 667,789 enrolled). Identification via home language survey plus WIDA screener (scores 1.0-4.9 classified as EL); K-12 denominator. The 0.4 percentage-point increase from NCES's fall 2021 value (8.3%) sits within the close-comparison band and is consistent with a modest upward continuation of the NCES trajectory under the same methodology.
Each point is the fall-enrollment share of students classified as English Learners in Utah's public schools.
Observations through fall 2021 are drawn from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Digest
of Education Statistics, Table 204.20, the canonical national series; NCES has not yet republished this table for
school years after 2021-22.
For fall 2024, the catalog falls back to figures published directly by the Utah state
education agency. State-agency methodology may differ from NCES — the methodology note above the data
table records the difference, and the dashed line and hollow markers in the chart mark the boundary.