Career Academy of Utah

As a rural-scale all-grades campus in SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, Career Academy of Utah caters to 176 students from grades K through 12, overseen by Career Academy of Utah. Compared to the state average of about 687 students per school, that is 74% leaner than typical.

Career Academy of Utah is the operating authority for Career Academy of Utah, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Demographically, Career Academy of Utah shows that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Pacific Islander, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Salt Lake County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Career Academy of Utah has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 5.8:1. The state averages around 19.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Career Academy of Utah falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.6%; this one comes in at 6.5%, -34.1 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Salt Lake County) shows that median household earnings sit near $97,494, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Career Academy of Utah is one campus in the mix.

Paradigm High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Career Academy of Utah comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting. As a public charter, Career Academy of Utah runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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