C.S. Lewis Academy

C.S. Lewis Academy is one of the tight-knit elementary schools in SANTAQUIN, Utah, overseen by C.S. Lewis Academy, with 224 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 54% smaller than the state mean of about 491.

C.S. Lewis Academy sits inside C.S. Lewis Academy, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, C.S. Lewis Academy shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 37% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. Roughly 54% of students at C.S. Lewis Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Utah County's rate of about 22%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, C.S. Lewis Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Utah County) logs that median household earnings sit near $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%. Across Utah County's 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), C.S. Lewis Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Apple Valley School, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around C.S. Lewis Academy. On composite proficiency, C.S. Lewis Academy comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area. C.S. Lewis Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. C.S. Lewis Academy's enrollment has ticked down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 321 (now 224). White enrollment moved from 73% to 37% across the same window.

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