Advantage Arts Academy

Advantage Arts Academy is an elementary-level community of low-enrollment scale in HERRIMAN, Utah, operated by Advantage Arts Academy, teacheing 354 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 28% leaner than the state mean of about 491.

Advantage Arts Academy is a school of Advantage Arts Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Advantage Arts Academy records that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Advantage Arts Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Salt Lake County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Advantage Arts Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.6%, the actual is 34.9%, a residual of -12.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Salt Lake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Advantage Arts Academy is one campus in the mix.

Herriman High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Advantage Arts Academy ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.4%.

Advantage Arts Academy operates from a low-density location. Advantage Arts Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

On the community side, members of the Advantage Arts Academy community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.