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Fairfield Jr High
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Fairfield Jr High
Fairfield Jr High is one of the middle-of-the-pack middle-grades schools in KAYSVILLE, Utah, part of Davis District, with 972 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 9.
Across the 95 schools in Davis District (71,703 students total), Fairfield Jr High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, Fairfield Jr High logs that nearly all students (81%) are White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Davis County as a whole.
Looking at school resources, Fairfield Jr High lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.7:1, putting Fairfield Jr High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 19% of students at Fairfield Jr High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, Fairfield Jr High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 50.3%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Davis County put the typical household earns roughly $110,884 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Davis County runs 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,110 students), of which Fairfield Jr High is one.
Creekside School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairfield Jr High. On composite proficiency, Fairfield Jr High comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairfield Jr High has decreased 7%, going from 1,047 students in 2018 to 972 in 2025.
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