Box Elder Middle

Box Elder Middle is a four-year high school of mid-tier scale in BRIGHAM CITY, Utah, overseen by Box Elder District, enrolling 1,124 students in grades 8 through 9.

Box Elder District runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 12,554 students. Box Elder Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Box Elder Middle records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Beyond that, the school records 14% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Box Elder Middle shows 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 31% of students at Box Elder Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Box Elder Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.7%; this one delivers 44.8%.

In the area at large, census data for Box Elder County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,550 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Box Elder Middle is one of 24 public schools in Box Elder County (combined enrollment of about 12,997 students).

Golden Spike Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Box Elder Middle at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 41.9%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 10%: 1,024 students in 2018 compared to 1,124 in 2025.

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