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Enrollment
575
Elementary
STATE 491
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ESPERANZA SCHOOL·NCES 490016101440
Esperanza School
4956 W 3500 S, WEST VALLEY CITY, UT 84120 · (801) 305-1450 · Salt Lake County
GRADES KG–07ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL575 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 35% of Utah public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
23.5:1
25 FTE teachers
STATE 21.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
308 students
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 30 | 5% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 200% larger than its 7th grade class (30).
Student demographics
5%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
30.2%
UT avg 41.4% . -4.9pp since 2023
Math
35.4%
UT avg 41.8% . -10.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.2% | 35.4% |
| 2023-24 | 35.1% | 45.6% |
% 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
37.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.6%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Esperanza School
Esperanza School's state test result (37.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Esperanza School this school | 575 | 53.6% | 37.2% |
| Dual Immersion Academy SALT LAKE CITY | 433 | 62.4% | 24.1% |
| Stansbury School WEST VALLEY CITY | 582 | 56.0% | 23.4% |
| Hillsdale School WEST VALLEY CITY | 548 | 53.3% | 19.5% |
| Lincoln School OGDEN | 488 | 63.3% | 21.2% |
| Parkside Elementary OREM | 588 | 61.1% | 31.0% |
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 Esperanza School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #410 of 562 | #100 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #397 of 578 ▼ 105 | #101 of 180 ▼ 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.2% | #463 of 578 ▼ 35 | #114 of 180 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 575 | #215 of 613 | #62 of 184 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.5:1 | #473 of 556 | #156 of 178 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 5.1% | #559 of 559 | #179 of 179 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.6% | #93 of 582 | #39 of 179 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.5% | #45 of 128 | #14 of 33 |
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
575
+50 (+10%) 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 | 575 | 24.5 | 23.5:1 | 54% (308) |
| 2023-24 | 538 | 21 | 25.6:1 | 39% (208) |
| 2022-23 | 529 | 21 | 25.2:1 | 39% (207) |
| 2020-21 | 525 | N/A | N/A | 33% (171) |
| 2017-18 | 502 | N/A | N/A | 77% (385) |
| 2015-16 | 485 | N/A | N/A | 69% (337) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Esperanza School.
About Esperanza School
Esperanza School is a public mid-sized elementary school in WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah. The school covers kindergarten through 7 and reported 575 students in 2024-25.
Esperanza School operates as its own local education agency.
At Esperanza School, 97% of students are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 2% White. For comparison, the population of Salt Lake County is roughly 21% Hispanic. The diversity index for Esperanza School is 5%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Based on 24.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, Esperanza School has a ratio of 23.5:1. Compared with the 21.8:1 average for elementary schools in Utah, this school's ratio is higher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 54%. That is higher than the 34% average for public schools in Salt Lake County.
Among Utah public elementary schools, Esperanza School outscored 35%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 37.2%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 33.6%.
Census data for Salt Lake County show the median household earns about $97,494 a year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Esperanza School, Salt Lake County has 325 public schools.
Valley Crest School is the nearest public school to Esperanza School, about 0.6 miles away. Esperanza School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 37.2% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 8 nearby schools.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large). Federal records list Esperanza School as a charter school.
Enrollment increased by 10% across 4 years, from 525 in 2020-21 to 575 in 2024-25.
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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 WEST VALLEY CITY
- Granger HighHigh · 3,267 students
- Hunter HighHigh · 2,480 students
- American Preparatory Academy - Accelerated SchoolCombined · 1,556 students
- Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12Combined · 777 students
- John F. Kennedy Jr HighMiddle · 772 students
- West Valley SchoolElementary · 764 students
Nearby schools
- Valley Crest School0.6 mi · 455
- Jackling School0.7 mi · 415
- Monticello Academy0.8 mi · 689
- Monroe School0.8 mi · 512
- Neil Armstrong Academy1.0 mi · 688
- Philo T. Farnsworth School1.1 mi · 448
Frequently asked questions
About Esperanza SchoolHow large is Esperanza School?
Esperanza School enrolls approximately 575 students in grades KG-07.
What age range does Esperanza School serve?
Esperanza School serves students from grade KG through grade 07.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Esperanza School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Esperanza School is approximately 23.5:1 (25 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Esperanza School?
At Esperanza School, the student body is approximately 2% White, 97% Hispanic, 1% Black.
Is Esperanza School public or private?
Esperanza School is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Esperanza School.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.