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American Academy of Innovation
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About American Academy of Innovation
As a micro-enrollment secondary school in SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, American Academy of Innovation caters to 373 students from grades 6 through 12, overseen by American Academy of Innovation. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 980 students each, so American Academy of Innovation sits 62% below that benchmark.
American Academy of Innovation is a school of American Academy of Innovation, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
On the student-mix side, American Academy of Innovation logs that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment; the rest looks like 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.1:1, putting American Academy of Innovation tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 23% of students at American Academy of Innovation qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Salt Lake County (around 34%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, American Academy of Innovation is in the bottom 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.5%; American Academy of Innovation posts 27.9%, -20.7 points below that line.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Salt Lake County put the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which American Academy of Innovation is one.
The closest other public school is Mountain Creek Middle School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), American Academy of Innovation ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 48.0%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting. American Academy of Innovation operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Five-year trend. American Academy of Innovation's enrollment has grew 19% since 2018, when it stood at 313 (now 373). White enrollment moved from 81% to 76% across the same window.
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