Beehive Science & Technology Academy Elementary
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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%.
About Beehive Science & Technology Academy Elementary
Set in SANDY, Utah, Beehive Science & Technology Academy Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school, overseen by Beehive Science & Technology Academy. It enrolls 435 students across grades K through 6.
Beehive Science & Technology Academy comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 859 students; Beehive Science & Technology Academy Elementary is among them.
On demographics, Beehive Science & Technology Academy Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 18% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Salt Lake County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Beehive Science & Technology Academy Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Salt Lake County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Beehive Science & Technology Academy Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 46.0%, a residual of -2.4 points.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Salt Lake County) records that the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Beehive Science & Technology Academy Elementary is one of 325 public schools in Salt Lake County (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students).
The closest other public school is Beehive Science & Technology Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Beehive Science & Technology Academy Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 66.5%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. Beehive Science & Technology Academy Elementary operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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