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Alumni: what's one memory from Douglas T. Orchard School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
411
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 491
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRANITE DISTRICT·NCES 490036000653
Douglas T. Orchard School
6744 W 3800 S, WEST VALLEY CITY, UT 84128 · (385) 646-4954 · Salt Lake County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL411 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of Utah public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
21.6:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.9:1 · STATE 21.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
201 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 33%
Community
1
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 | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 19% |
| Grade 6 | 59 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 8% smaller than its 6th grade class (59).
Student demographics
58%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
21.6%
UT avg 41.4% . -4.7pp since 2023
Math
18.8%
UT avg 41.8% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.6% | 18.8% |
| 2023-24 | 26.3% | 22.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.9%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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%.
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 Douglas T. Orchard School
Douglas T. Orchard School's state test result (24.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas T. Orchard School this school | 411 | 48.9% | 24.6% |
| Lake Ridge School MAGNA | 410 | 44.6% | 15.8% |
| Leadership Learning Academy - Ogden OGDEN | 385 | 44.7% | 19.4% |
| Copper Hills School MAGNA | 432 | 45.4% | 28.3% |
| Rolling Meadows School WEST VALLEY CITY | 456 | 47.1% | 32.0% |
| Ascent Academies of Utah - West Valley WEST VALLEY CITY | 425 | 54.4% | 22.5% |
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 Douglas T. Orchard School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.6% | #509 of 562 | #133 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.8% | #533 of 578 ▼ 22 | #155 of 180 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #526 of 578 ▼ 19 | #142 of 180 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 411 | #441 of 613 | #131 of 184 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.6:1 | #335 of 556 | #115 of 178 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.0% | #91 of 559 | #69 of 179 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.9% | #137 of 582 | #47 of 179 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.0% | #88 of 388 | #39 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
411
-90 (-18%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 832
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 | 411 | 19 | 21.6:1 | 49% (201) |
| 2023-24 | 465 | 24.5 | 19.0:1 | 61% (285) |
| 2022-23 | 461 | 21 | 21.9:1 | 61% (282) |
| 2020-21 | 501 | N/A | N/A | 59% (295) |
| 2017-18 | 571 | N/A | N/A | 64% (367) |
| 2015-16 | 610 | N/A | N/A | 66% (401) |
| 2010-11 | 723 | 27 | 26.8:1 | 59% (424) |
| 2000-01 | 817 | 38 | 21.5:1 | 38% (312) |
| 1990-91 | 832 | 34 | 24.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Douglas T. Orchard School.
About Douglas T. Orchard School
Families in WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, are served by Douglas T. Orchard School, a small elementary school. Enrollment totals 411 students across pre-K through 6.
Granite District serves 59,404 students across 85 schools.
The share of Hispanic students at Douglas T. Orchard School is 54%, a majority. Other students are 36% White, 3% Black, 2% multiracial, and 2% Pacific Islander. That is higher than the 21% Hispanic share among all Salt Lake County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 58%.
There are 19 full-time-equivalent teachers at Douglas T. Orchard School, giving a ratio of 21.6:1. It is about the same as the 21.8:1 average for elementary schools in Utah. By family income, 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 15 points above the 34% average for public schools in Salt Lake County.
Douglas T. Orchard School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 9% of Utah public elementary schools.
Douglas T. Orchard School scores 24.6% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 35.9%.
The school is in Salt Lake County, where the median household earns about $97,494 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Across Salt Lake County, 325 public schools serve about 209,757 students.
Of the public schools around it, Douglas T. Orchard School is closest to Hunter Jr High, about 0.8 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 25.0%; Douglas T. Orchard School's is 24.6%, ranking 6th of 8.
Federal data place Douglas T. Orchard 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.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 18%.
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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 WEST VALLEY CITY
- Granger HighHigh · 3,267 students
- Hunter HighHigh · 2,480 students
- American Preparatory Academy - Accelerated SchoolCombined · 1,556 students
- Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12Combined · 777 students
- John F. Kennedy Jr HighMiddle · 772 students
- West Valley SchoolElementary · 764 students
Nearby schools
- Hunter Jr High0.8 mi · 667
- Gearld Wright School1.0 mi · 532
- Whittier School1.0 mi · 492
- Lake Ridge School1.1 mi · 410
- Copper Hills School1.1 mi · 432
- West Valley School1.3 mi · 764
Frequently asked questions
About Douglas T. Orchard SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Douglas T. Orchard School?
Douglas T. Orchard School enrolls approximately 411 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Douglas T. Orchard School serve?
Douglas T. Orchard School serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Douglas T. Orchard School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Douglas T. Orchard School is approximately 21.6:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Douglas T. Orchard School?
At Douglas T. Orchard School, the student body is approximately 36% White, 54% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Douglas T. Orchard School?
Douglas T. Orchard School is overseen by Granite District in Salt Lake County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.