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Arcadia School
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RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Arcadia School
Arcadia School operates as an average-sized elementary school in TAYLORSVILLE, Utah, part of Granite District. Current enrollment sits at 433 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.
Within Granite District, which oversees 85 schools and 59,404 students, Arcadia School is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Arcadia School logs that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 35% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% Pacific Islander, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Arcadia School is in the bottom 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.4%; Arcadia School posts 16.2%, -22.1 points below that line.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Salt Lake County put median household earnings sit near $97,494, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Arcadia School is one.
Harry S. Truman School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Arcadia School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 31.1%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Arcadia School has edged down 5%, going from 456 students in 2018 to 433 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 27% to 35% over that span.
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