RISE / Utah Aspire+, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient + Highly Proficient.English Language Arts
69.7%
State avg 41.4%
District avg 49.5%
County avg 45.2%
+0.0pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
71.9%
State avg 41.8%
District avg 51.1%
County avg 46.3%
+2.0pp since 2023-24
Science
75.2%
State avg 48.1%
District avg 56.3%
County avg 51.6%
+1.2pp since 2023-24
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 72 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 75 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41, 42, and 48. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points and science scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of UT schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.9%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Utah's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual.
How this is calculated →What is RISE / Utah Aspire+?
RISE / Utah Aspire+ is the statewide standardized test administered by Utah public schools.
What does "% Proficient + Highly Proficient" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 69.7% mean for English Language Arts at Cedar Ridge School?
It means about 69.7 percent of students tested at Cedar Ridge School performed at grade level or above on the RISE / Utah Aspire+ English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Utah that year was 41.4%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Utah, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Utah State Board of Education, RISE (grades 3-8) and Utah Aspire Plus (grades 9-10). School-level from the USBE Proficiency Levels xlsx. NCES join via school name (no school code in source). Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient + Highly Proficient" rate (top 2 of 4 RISE/Aspire levels: Below / Approaching / Proficient / Highly Proficient).
How often is it updated?
RISE / Utah Aspire+ is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.
