Bear River Middle

Bear River Middle is a 9-12 campus of mid-sized scale in GARLAND, Utah, operated by Box Elder District, hosting 841 students in grades 8 through 10.

Within Box Elder District, which oversees 22 schools and 12,554 students, Bear River Middle is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Bear River Middle logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 13% Hispanic. Compared to Box Elder County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bear River Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.7%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Box Elder County) shows that median household income runs about $84,550, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Box Elder County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,997 students), of which Bear River Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bear River High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Bear River Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bear River Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 45.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 11%: 755 students in 2018 compared to 841 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.