Enrollment
345
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 491
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SALT LAKE DISTRICT·NCES 490087000475
Beacon Heights School
1850 S 2500 E, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84108 · (801) 481-4814 · Salt Lake County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL345 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 95% of Utah public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Utah public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 21.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
63 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 33%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 17 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 53 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 19% smaller than its 6th grade class (53).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientEnglish Language Arts
62.2%
UT avg 41.4% . -10.2pp since 2023
Math
68.4%
UT avg 41.8% . -5.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.2% | 68.4% |
| 2023-24 | 72.4% | 73.7% |
% Proficient + Highly Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: RISE / Utah Aspire+. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of UT schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
70.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.9%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Utah's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Beacon Heights School
Beacon Heights School's state test result (70.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Heights School this school | 345 | 18.3% | 70.6% |
| Peruvian Park School SANDY | 560 | 22.1% | 80.1% |
| Indian Hills School SALT LAKE CITY | 467 | 13.5% | 78.5% |
| Thomas Edison - North NORTH LOGAN | 490 | 22.7% | 59.5% |
| Sunrise School SANDY | 647 | 11.0% | 79.5% |
| Woodstock School SALT LAKE CITY | 625 | 24.8% | 53.9% |
Matched among Utah elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Beacon Heights School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.6% | #29 of 562 | #16 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.4% | #46 of 578 ▼ 21 | #20 of 180 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #50 of 578 ▼ 29 | #23 of 180 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 345 | #499 of 613 | #151 of 184 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #50 of 556 | #17 of 178 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.2% | #228 of 559 | #114 of 179 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.3% | #444 of 582 | #141 of 179 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.3% | #47 of 388 | #20 of 133 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
345
-27 (-7%) vs 2020
-36% since 1990-91, when it was 536
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 345 | 20 | 17.3:1 | 18% (63) |
| 2023-24 | 372 | 20.8 | 17.9:1 | 17% (62) |
| 2022-23 | 397 | 21.7 | 18.3:1 | 18% (71) |
| 2020-21 | 372 | N/A | N/A | 13% (49) |
| 2017-18 | 502 | N/A | N/A | 20% (100) |
| 2015-16 | 501 | N/A | N/A | 21% (104) |
| 2010-11 | 497 | 21 | 23.7:1 | 24% (120) |
| 2000-01 | 562 | 24 | 23.4:1 | 17% (95) |
| 1990-91 | 536 | 18 | 29.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Beacon Heights School.
About Beacon Heights School
Beacon Heights School is one of the public schools in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. It is a small elementary school. The school enrolls 345 students in pre-K through 6. Elementary schools in Utah average about 491 students, which makes this school 30% below average.
Salt Lake District runs 39 schools with a combined 20,086 students. Beacon Heights School is one of them.
At Beacon Heights School, 71% of students are White. It is also 10% Asian, 8% multiracial, and 8% Hispanic. Census estimates put Salt Lake County at about 70% White, close to the school's figure. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Beacon Heights School scores 47%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.3:1. The school has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Utah is 21.8:1. In all, 18% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 16 points below the 34% average for public schools in Salt Lake County.
On the allk12 Grade, Beacon Heights School lands at A+, ahead of 95% of Utah public elementary schools.
A school in Utah with Beacon Heights School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 50.9%. Beacon Heights School scores 70.6%.
In Salt Lake County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $97,494, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county has 325 public schools and about 209,757 students.
Hillside Middle sits about 0.2 miles from Beacon Heights School. Beacon Heights School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Beacon Heights School ranks 4th on proficiency.
Beacon Heights School is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
From 372 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 345 by 2024-25.
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Salt Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,196,523
Census ACS
Median income
$97,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
325
209,757 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Salt Lake District
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- East HighHigh · 1,764 students
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Other schools in SALT LAKE CITY
- West HighHigh · 2,503 students
- Brighton HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 2,186 students
- Olympus HighHigh · 2,151 students
- Highland HighHigh · 1,973 students
- East HighHigh · 1,764 students
Nearby schools
- Hillside Middle0.2 mi · 485
- Dilworth School0.5 mi · 463
- Indian Hills School0.7 mi · 467
- Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts0.9 mi · 163
- Clayton Middle1.0 mi · 567
- Bonneville School1.3 mi · 414
Frequently asked questions
About Beacon Heights SchoolHow many students attend Beacon Heights School?
Beacon Heights School enrolls approximately 345 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Beacon Heights School serve?
Beacon Heights School serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Beacon Heights School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Beacon Heights School is approximately 17.3:1 (20 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Beacon Heights School?
Beacon Heights School reports a student body of 71% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 10% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Beacon Heights School?
Beacon Heights School is overseen by Salt Lake District in Salt Lake County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.