Ephraim Middle

Ephraim Middle is a low-enrollment 6-8 campus in EPHRAIM, Utah, overseen by South Sanpete District. The school enrolls 495 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 831 students each, so Ephraim Middle sits 40% below that benchmark.

Within South Sanpete District, which oversees 8 schools and 3,305 students, Ephraim Middle is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ephraim Middle lists that nearly all students (82%) are White. The remainder consists of 15% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.7:1 average. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ephraim Middle ranks in the top 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 36.7%; Ephraim Middle posts 52.5%, +15.8 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Sanpete County) records that the typical household earns roughly $70,083 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Sanpete County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,011 students), of which Ephraim Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ephraim School, around 0.1 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Ephraim Middle comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

Ephraim Middle operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ephraim Middle has fell 4%, going from 513 students in 2018 to 495 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 11% to 15%.

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