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Bastian School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Utah's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Bastian School
Bastian School operates as a well-populated elementary school in HERRIMAN, Utah, one of the schools within Jordan District. Current enrollment sits at 741 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 51% above the state mean of about 491.
Jordan District comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 58,788 students; Bastian School is among them.
On the student-mix side, Bastian School logs that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment; the rest consists of 18% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.5:1. The state averages about 21.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Salt Lake County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bastian School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.2%, the actual is 47.4%, a residual of -3.8 points.
Across the wider county, Salt Lake County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Bastian School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Athlos Academy of Utah, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bastian School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 41.1%.
Bastian School operates from a bedroom-community location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 36%: 543 students in 2018 compared to 741 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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