David Gourley School

As an average-sized K-5 school in KEARNS, Utah, David Gourley School caters to 423 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under Granite District.

Granite District runs 85 schools in total, collectively educating 59,404 students. David Gourley School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, David Gourley School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 24% White, 9% Pacific Islander, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Salt Lake County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 21.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Salt Lake County (around 34%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, David Gourley School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.7%, the actual is 35.2%, a residual of -1.5 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Salt Lake County put median household income runs about $97,494, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which David Gourley School is one.

The closest other public school is West Kearns School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, David Gourley School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 21.4%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 36%: 665 students in 2018 compared to 423 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 31% to 24%.

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