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What's one thing Eisenhower Jr High gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
1,036
Middle
DISTRICT 777 · STATE 831
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRANITE DISTRICT·NCES 490036000215
Eisenhower Jr High
4351 S REDWOOD RD, TAYLORSVILLE, UT 84123 · (385) 646-5154 · Salt Lake County
GRADES 06–09MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,036 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of Utah public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.3:1 · STATE 21.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
576 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 33%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 326 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 334 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 376 | 36% |
Student demographics
67%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
23.7%
UT avg 41.4% . -0.1pp since 2023
Math
25.2%
UT avg 41.8% . -2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 2 points.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.7% | 25.2% |
| 2023-24 | 23.8% | 27.3% |
% 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
26.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.6%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Eisenhower Jr High
Eisenhower Jr High's state test result (26.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eisenhower Jr High this school | 1,036 | 55.6% | 26.6% |
| Midvale Middle SANDY | 802 | 56.6% | 26.7% |
| Hunter Jr High WEST VALLEY CITY | 667 | 52.5% | 26.6% |
| West Lake Jr High WEST VALLEY CITY | 724 | 64.2% | 23.4% |
| John F. Kennedy Jr High WEST VALLEY CITY | 772 | 64.2% | 17.5% |
| Valley Jr High WEST VALLEY CITY | 546 | 63.2% | 20.1% |
Matched among Utah middle 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 Eisenhower Jr High ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.6% | #121 of 136 | #32 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #114 of 140 ▼ 1 | #27 of 44 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.7% | #130 of 140 ▼ 1 | #36 of 44 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,036 | #41 of 144 | #13 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.4:1 | #67 of 137 | #19 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.9% | #2 of 137 | #2 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.6% | #14 of 141 | #10 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.5% | #33 of 77 | #14 of 25 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
1,036
-82 (-7%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 1,504
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 | 1,036 | 46.3 | 22.4:1 | 56% (576) |
| 2023-24 | 1,059 | 42.9 | 24.7:1 | 63% (665) |
| 2022-23 | 1,091 | 44.9 | 24.3:1 | 60% (653) |
| 2020-21 | 1,118 | N/A | N/A | 61% (680) |
| 2017-18 | 1,198 | N/A | N/A | 69% (832) |
| 2015-16 | 1,026 | N/A | N/A | 64% (658) |
| 2010-11 | 951 | 43 | 22.1:1 | 61% (576) |
| 2000-01 | 1,372 | 61 | 22.5:1 | 34% (472) |
| 1990-91 | 1,504 | 58 | 25.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Eisenhower Jr High.
About Eisenhower Jr High
Eisenhower Jr High is a public mid-sized middle-grades school in TAYLORSVILLE, Utah. The school enrolls 1,036 students in grades 6 through 9. That compares with an average of about 831 students for middle schools in Utah.
District-wide, Granite District has 85 schools and 59,404 students.
The student body at Eisenhower Jr High has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 45%. Other groups make up 35% White, 5% Black, 5% multiracial, and 5% Asian. Salt Lake County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. A diversity index of 67% means there is a 67% chance two randomly chosen students at Eisenhower Jr High are from different groups.
There are 46.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 22.4:1. Across middle schools in Utah, the average ratio is 21.7:1. Of all students at Eisenhower Jr High, 56% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Salt Lake County is 34%.
Among Utah public middle schools, Eisenhower Jr High outscored 16%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Eisenhower Jr High is 6.0 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (26.6% versus 32.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Utah.
In the wider Salt Lake County area, the median household earns about $97,494 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Eisenhower Jr High shares Salt Lake County with 324 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, John C. Fremont School, is about 0.3 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Eisenhower Jr High is 3rd among 8 schools close by.
Eisenhower Jr High is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
A 7% decline took enrollment from 1,118 in 2020-21 to 1,036 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Eisenhower Jr High can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 TAYLORSVILLE
- Taylorsville HighHigh · 2,685 students
- Bennion Jr HighMiddle · 1,022 students
- Vista SchoolCombined · 551 students
- Calvin S. Smith SchoolElementary · 525 students
- Arcadia SchoolElementary · 433 students
- John C. Fremont SchoolElementary · 374 students
Other Eisenhower Junior High schools
One other US public school is named Eisenhower Junior High. Eisenhower Jr High is the largest of the 2.
- Eisenhower Jr High SchoolDarien, IL · 407 students
Nearby schools
- John C. Fremont School0.3 mi · 374
- Taylorsville School0.5 mi · 404
- Vista School1.0 mi · 551
- Granger School1.2 mi · 716
- Hartvigsen School1.3 mi · 76
- Plymouth School1.3 mi · 535
Frequently asked questions
About Eisenhower Jr HighHow large is Eisenhower Jr High?
Eisenhower Jr High enrolls approximately 1,036 students in grades 06-09.
What age range does Eisenhower Jr High serve?
Eisenhower Jr High serves students from grade 06 through grade 09.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Eisenhower Jr High?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Eisenhower Jr High is approximately 22.4:1 (46 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Eisenhower Jr High?
Student demographics at Eisenhower Jr High are roughly 35% White, 45% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Eisenhower Jr High in?
Eisenhower Jr High is part of Granite District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.