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Bonneville Jr High
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Bonneville Jr High
Set in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Bonneville Jr High is a modestly sized middle school, part of Granite District. It enrolls 636 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 23% smaller than the state mean of about 831.
Within Granite District, which oversees 85 schools and 59,404 students, Bonneville Jr High is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Bonneville Jr High lists that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 27% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.7:1 average. Roughly 40% of students at Bonneville Jr High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bonneville Jr High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.2%; this one delivers 36.6%.
Across the wider county, census data for Salt Lake County shows median household income runs about $97,494, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Bonneville Jr High is one campus in the mix.
Academy for Math Engineering & Science is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bonneville Jr High at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 48.3%.
Bonneville Jr High operates from a residential location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 21%: 525 students in 2018 compared to 636 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 69% to 55% over that span.
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