Birch Creek School

As a big elementary school in SMITHFIELD, Utah, Birch Creek School hosts 766 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of Cache District. That puts it 56% bigger than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 491 students.

Within Cache District, which oversees 26 schools and 20,286 students, Birch Creek School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Birch Creek School lists that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Birch Creek School sits in the top 10% of Utah schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 42.6%; actual is 60.3%, +17.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, Cache County reports that median household earnings sit near $81,665, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Birch Creek School is one of 44 public schools in Cache County (combined enrollment of about 28,291 students).

The closest other public school is Summit School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Birch Creek School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 58.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Birch Creek School's enrollment has edged up 34% since 2018, when it stood at 573 (now 766). The White share of enrollment shrank from 88% to 82% over that span.

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