Castle Dale School

As a very small elementary school in CASTLE DALE, Utah, Castle Dale School works with 127 students from grades K through 5, run under Emery District. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 491 students each, so Castle Dale School sits 74% below that benchmark.

Within Emery District, which oversees 10 schools and 2,091 students, Castle Dale School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Castle Dale School logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Castle Dale School ranks in the top 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 34.4%; Castle Dale School posts 52.2%, +17.8 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Emery County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,291 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Emery County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,091 students), of which Castle Dale School is one.

Emery High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Castle Dale School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 46.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Castle Dale School's enrollment has decreased 28% since 2018, when it stood at 177 (now 127). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 97% to 91% over that span.

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