Beacon Heights School

Beacon Heights School is an elementary school of intimate scale in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, part of Salt Lake District, hosting 345 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 30% below the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 491 students.

Within Salt Lake District, which oversees 39 schools and 20,086 students, Beacon Heights School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Beacon Heights School reports that 71% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 10% Asian, 8% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Beacon Heights School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Beacon Heights School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 18% of students at Beacon Heights School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Beacon Heights School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 70.6%, a residual of +19.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Salt Lake County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,494, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Beacon Heights School is one.

Hillside Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Beacon Heights School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 66.3%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beacon Heights School has contracted 31%, going from 502 students in 2018 to 345 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.