Canyon School

Canyon School is an elementary school of expansive scale in HYRUM, Utah, operated by Cache District, enrolling 789 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 61% above the state mean of about 491.

Cache District comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 20,286 students; Canyon School is among them.

On demographics, Canyon School records that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 14% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Cache County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Cache County's rate of about 31%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Canyon School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cache County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,665 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Cache County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,291 students), Canyon School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mountain Crest High, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Canyon School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Canyon School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 55.8%.

Canyon School operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Canyon School's enrollment has grew 17% since 2018, when it stood at 672 (now 789).

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