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Canyon View Middle
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% 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 Canyon View Middle
Canyon View Middle is one of the moderately sized 6-8 campuss in CEDAR CITY, Utah, operated by Iron District, with 948 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.
Within Iron District, which oversees 18 schools and 14,125 students, Canyon View Middle is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Canyon View Middle logs that 78% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.7:1 average. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Iron County (around 30%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
With demographic context factored in, Canyon View Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.7%; this one delivers 49.7%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Iron County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,247 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Canyon View Middle is one of 21 public schools in Iron County (combined enrollment of about 15,285 students).
Nearest neighbor: Canyon View High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Canyon View Middle. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Canyon View Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 49.2%.
The campus sits in a town-center setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Canyon View Middle has changed only slightly, going from 972 students in 2018 to 948 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 86% to 78%.
On allk12, the feed for Canyon View Middle typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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