Cedar Valley School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 Cedar Valley School
Cedar Valley School is a minimally staffed elementary school in CEDAR FORT, Utah, part of Alpine District. The school enrolls 106 students in grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 491 students per school, that is 78% below typical.
Alpine District comprises 89 schools with combined enrollment of 86,645 students; Cedar Valley School is among them.
In terms of who attends, Cedar Valley School records that nearly all students (89%) are White. Beyond that, the school reports 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, Cedar Valley School records 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. About 8% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Utah County runs at roughly 22%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Cedar Valley School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.1%, the actual is 55.6%, a residual of -0.5 points.
In the area at large, census data for Utah County shows median household income runs about $100,671, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Cedar Valley School is one of 202 public schools in Utah County (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students).
Nearest neighbor: Mountain Trails School, around 4.5 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cedar Valley School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 45.1%.
Cedar Valley School operates from a small-town location.
Looking at the recent track record. Cedar Valley School's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 113 (now 106).
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