Enrollment
340
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 491
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRANITE DISTRICT·NCES 490036000208
Cottonwood School
5205 HOLLADAY BLVD, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84117 · (385) 646-4798 · Salt Lake County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL340 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of Utah public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Utah public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
25.2:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.9:1 · STATE 21.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
29 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 33%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 22% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientEnglish Language Arts
66.7%
UT avg 41.4% . -7.2pp since 2023
Math
79.5%
UT avg 41.8% . -0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.7% | 79.5% |
| 2023-24 | 73.9% | 80.4% |
% Proficient + Highly Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: RISE / Utah Aspire+. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of UT schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
78.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.6%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% 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 23 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 →
Schools most like Cottonwood School
Cottonwood School's state test result (78.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood School this school | 340 | 8.5% | 78.5% |
| Quail Hollow School SANDY | 366 | 10.7% | 68.2% |
| Granite School SANDY | 303 | 11.2% | 76.6% |
| Valley View School BOUNTIFUL | 426 | 6.6% | 73.0% |
| Brookwood School SANDY | 359 | 4.2% | 59.5% |
| Farmington School FARMINGTON | 444 | 10.1% | 63.6% |
Matched among Utah elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cottonwood School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.5% | #7 of 562 | #6 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.5% | #5 of 578 no change | #4 of 180 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.7% | #29 of 578 ▼ 10 | #17 of 180 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 340 | #503 of 613 | #155 of 184 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.2:1 | #536 of 556 | #172 of 178 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.5% | #484 of 559 | #173 of 179 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.5% | #556 of 582 | #171 of 179 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.9% | #39 of 388 | #17 of 133 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
340
-97 (-22%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 572
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 340 | 13.5 | 25.2:1 | 9% (29) |
| 2023-24 | 343 | 17.5 | 19.6:1 | 12% (40) |
| 2022-23 | 387 | 17.5 | 22.1:1 | 9% (33) |
| 2020-21 | 437 | N/A | N/A | 10% (45) |
| 2017-18 | 507 | N/A | N/A | 10% (52) |
| 2015-16 | 511 | N/A | N/A | 10% (49) |
| 2010-11 | 486 | 15 | 32.4:1 | 7% (34) |
| 2000-01 | 510 | 21 | 24.3:1 | 3% (17) |
| 1990-91 | 572 | 19 | 30.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cottonwood School.
About Cottonwood School
Cottonwood School is a small elementary school in Granite District, located in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. A federal count lists 340 students at the school, in pre-K through 6. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Utah is about 491, so this school runs 31% smaller than that.
The district, Granite District, operates 85 schools serving 59,404 students.
White students are the large majority at Cottonwood School, with 86% of enrollment. Other groups make up 6% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. County-wide, 70% of Salt Lake County residents are White. By the diversity index, Cottonwood School comes in at 25%.
Dividing enrollment by its 13.5 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 25.2:1. Among elementary schools in Utah, the typical ratio is 21.8:1. Eligible students account for 9% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. Public schools in Salt Lake County average 34%.
allk12 grades Cottonwood School an A+. The grade compares the school only with Utah public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Cottonwood School ranks in the top 10% of Utah schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 78.5%. Predicted: 55.6%. Difference: 22.8 points.
Census estimates describe Salt Lake County this way: median household income is about $97,494, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Salt Lake County number 325 and enroll about 209,757.
The school nearest to Cottonwood School is Olympus Jr High, at a distance of about 1.1 miles. Within five miles of Cottonwood School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Cottonwood School is 2nd of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Federal data place Cottonwood School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 437 in 2020-21 and 340 in 2024-25, a 22% decrease.
Community posts for Cottonwood School can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Salt Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,196,523
Census ACS
Median income
$97,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
325
209,757 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Granite District
- Granger HighHigh · 3,267 students
- Cyprus HighHigh · 2,762 students
- Taylorsville HighHigh · 2,685 students
- Hunter HighHigh · 2,480 students
- Kearns HighHigh · 2,313 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 2,186 students
Other schools in SALT LAKE CITY
- West HighHigh · 2,503 students
- Brighton HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 2,186 students
- Olympus HighHigh · 2,151 students
- Highland HighHigh · 1,973 students
- East HighHigh · 1,764 students
Other Cottonwood schools
5 other US public schools in 3 states are named Cottonwood. Cottonwood School is the 2nd largest of the 6.
- Cottonwood SchoolORANGEVILLE, UT · 115 students
- CottonwoodEl Dorado Hills, CA · 3,563 students
- CottonwoodAguanga, CA · 197 students
- Cottonwood SchoolHavre, MT · 20 students
- Cottonwood SchoolBozeman, MT · 16 students
Nearby schools
- Olympus Jr High1.1 mi · 807
- Oakwood School1.2 mi · 580
- Howard R. Driggs School1.4 mi · 469
- Bonneville Jr High1.6 mi · 636
- Morningside School1.7 mi · 564
- Churchill Jr High1.8 mi · 521
Frequently asked questions
About Cottonwood SchoolHow many students attend Cottonwood School?
Cottonwood School enrolls approximately 340 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Cottonwood School serve?
Cottonwood School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cottonwood School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cottonwood School is approximately 25.2:1 (14 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Cottonwood School?
Student demographics at Cottonwood School are roughly 86% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Cottonwood School?
Cottonwood School is overseen by Granite District in Salt Lake County.
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