Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Diamond Ridge School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Utah's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Diamond Ridge School
Set in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Diamond Ridge School is a reasonably sized K-5 school, operated by Granite District. It works with 483 students across grades K through 6.
Granite District runs 85 schools in total, collectively educating 59,404 students. Diamond Ridge School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Diamond Ridge School logs that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 39% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Diamond Ridge School lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Diamond Ridge School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Salt Lake County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Diamond Ridge School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.3%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Salt Lake County) reports that median household income runs about $97,494, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Diamond Ridge School is one of 325 public schools in Salt Lake County (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students).
Thomas W. Bacchus School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Diamond Ridge School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Diamond Ridge School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 27.7%.
Diamond Ridge School operates from an outer-ring location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Diamond Ridge School has decreased 37%, going from 762 students in 2018 to 483 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 71% to 48%.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Diamond Ridge School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Salt Lake County at a glance
View full county profileQuick facts
Related schools
- 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
- 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
- Thomas W. Bacchus School0.5 mi · 315
- Thomas Jefferson Jr High0.8 mi · 915
- Jim Bridger School0.8 mi · 340
- Falcon Ridge School1.0 mi · 674
- Mountain Shadows School1.4 mi · 595
- Beehive School1.4 mi · 489