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Early Light Academy at Daybreak
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 Early Light Academy at Daybreak
Early Light Academy at Daybreak is one of the reasonably sized all-grades campuss in SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, part of Early Light Academy at Daybreak, with 1,022 students on its rolls from grades K through 9. Enrollment runs roughly 49% above the state mean of about 687.
Early Light Academy at Daybreak is a school of Early Light Academy at Daybreak, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
On demographics, Early Light Academy at Daybreak records that 64% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 17% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Early Light Academy at Daybreak has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.5:1. The state averages about 19.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Salt Lake County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Early Light Academy at Daybreak sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.6%; this one delivers 52.6%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Salt Lake County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Early Light Academy at Daybreak is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Daybreak School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Early Light Academy at Daybreak ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.1%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. Early Light Academy at Daybreak is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Early Light Academy at Daybreak has held roughly steady, going from 1,002 students in 2018 to 1,022 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 82% to 64% over that span.
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