Deerfield School

Deerfield School is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in CEDAR HILLS, Utah, part of Alpine District, with 554 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 89 schools in Alpine District (86,645 students total), Deerfield School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Deerfield School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Utah County's rate of about 22%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Deerfield School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.0%, the actual is 62.1%, a residual of +7.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Utah County indicate the typical household earns roughly $100,671 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Utah County runs 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), of which Deerfield School is one.

The closest other public school is Lincoln Academy, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Deerfield School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 51.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Deerfield School has fell 29%, going from 777 students in 2018 to 554 in 2025.

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