Dry Creek School

Dry Creek School is one of the heavily attended elementary campuss in LEHI, Utah, operated by Alpine District, with 1,157 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 491 students per school, that is 136% bigger than typical.

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

Looking at the student body, Dry Creek School logs that White students make up the majority at 79%. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Utah County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Dry Creek School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 57.9%, a residual of +5.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Utah County shows 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 Dry Creek School is one.

Mountain Sunrise Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dry Creek School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dry Creek School has increased 12%, going from 1,030 students in 2018 to 1,157 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 89% to 79%.

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