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What's the most underrated thing about Elk Run Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
714
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 491
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRANITE DISTRICT·NCES 490036001412
Elk Run Elementary
3550 S HELEN DR, MAGNA, UT 84044 · (385) 646-4786 · Salt Lake County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL714 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
24.0:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.9:1 · STATE 21.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
283 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 97 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 102 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 116 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (97) is 16% smaller than its 6th grade class (116).
Student demographics
57%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
14.6%
UT avg 41.4% . -2.9pp since 2023
Math
12.9%
UT avg 41.8% . -0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.6% | 12.9% |
| 2023-24 | 17.5% | 13.4% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of UT schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
18.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.4%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Elk Run Elementary
Elk Run Elementary's state test result (18.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elk Run Elementary this school | 714 | 39.6% | 18.3% |
| South Kearns School KEARNS | 536 | 46.8% | 27.7% |
| Hunter School WEST VALLEY CITY | 480 | 40.2% | 27.0% |
| Redwood School WEST VALLEY CITY | 511 | 36.2% | 7.6% |
| Lake Ridge School MAGNA | 410 | 44.6% | 15.8% |
| David Gourley School KEARNS | 423 | 47.3% | 35.2% |
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 Elk Run Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.3% | #544 of 562 | #157 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.9% | #566 of 578 ▼ 3 | #171 of 180 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.6% | #560 of 578 ▼ 5 | #165 of 180 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 714 | #81 of 613 | #19 of 184 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.0:1 | #494 of 556 | #161 of 178 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.0% | #106 of 559 | #77 of 179 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.6% | #219 of 582 | #74 of 179 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.3% | #324 of 388 | #122 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
714
+35 (+5%) vs 2020
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 | 714 | 29.8 | 24.0:1 | 40% (283) |
| 2023-24 | 679 | 27.3 | 24.9:1 | 53% (361) |
| 2022-23 | 629 | 28.5 | 22.1:1 | 55% (344) |
| 2020-21 | 679 | N/A | N/A | 60% (409) |
| 2017-18 | 762 | N/A | N/A | 62% (473) |
| 2015-16 | 783 | N/A | N/A | 59% (459) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Elk Run Elementary.
About Elk Run Elementary
Elk Run Elementary, located in MAGNA, Utah, is a mid-sized elementary school. It is open to students in pre-K through 6 and enrolls 714 students. It has 45% more students than the average for elementary schools in Utah (about 491).
Granite District counts 59,404 students in its 85 schools, and Elk Run Elementary is one of them.
Of every 100 students at Elk Run Elementary, about 57 are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 32% White, 4% Black, and 4% Pacific Islander. Salt Lake County's residents are about 21% Hispanic, 37 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Elk Run Elementary scores 57%.
With 29.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 24.0:1. Elementary schools in Utah have an average ratio of 21.8:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Elk Run Elementary, 40% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Schools in Utah with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 40.4%. Elk Run Elementary posts 18.3%, 22.1 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
In Salt Lake County, home to about 1,196,523 people, the median household earns about $97,494 a year, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Elk Run Elementary shares Salt Lake County with 324 other public schools.
Elk Run Elementary's nearest public school is Magna School (about 0.6 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Elk Run Elementary places 6th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
NCES describes the area around Elk Run Elementary as Suburb: Large, meaning 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 rose 5%.
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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 MAGNA
- Cyprus HighHigh · 2,762 students
- Scott M Matheson Jr HighMiddle · 1,051 students
- Magna SchoolElementary · 549 students
- Pleasant Green SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Entheos Academy MagnaCombined · 475 students
- Copper Hills SchoolElementary · 432 students
Nearby schools
- Magna School0.6 mi · 549
- Cyprus High0.7 mi · 2,762
- Scott M Matheson Jr High1.0 mi · 1,051
- Pleasant Green School1.1 mi · 482
- Copper Hills School1.3 mi · 432
- Lake Ridge School1.5 mi · 410
Frequently asked questions
About Elk Run ElementaryHow large is Elk Run Elementary?
Elk Run Elementary enrolls approximately 714 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Elk Run Elementary serve?
Elk Run Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does Elk Run Elementary have?
Elk Run Elementary employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 24.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Elk Run Elementary?
Student demographics at Elk Run Elementary are roughly 32% White, 57% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Elk Run Elementary public or private?
Elk Run Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Granite District.
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