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Cook School
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RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Cook School
Cook School operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in SYRACUSE, Utah, operated by Davis District. Current enrollment sits at 657 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 491 students each, so Cook School sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.
Across the 95 schools in Davis District (71,703 students total), Cook School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Cook School reports that nearly all students (81%) are White. The remainder consists of 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. Compared to Davis County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cook School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.5%, the actual is 49.9%, a residual of +0.5 points.
Around the school, census data for Davis County shows median household income runs about $110,884, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cook School is one of 118 public schools in Davis County (combined enrollment of about 81,110 students).
Syracuse School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cook School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 21%: 830 students in 2018 compared to 657 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 81% across the same window.
On the community side, members of the Cook School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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