Fairview School
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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 54 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 are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Utah's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Fairview School
Fairview School, a tight-knit elementary campus in FAIRVIEW, Utah, part of North Sanpete District, enrolls 235 students, covering grades K through 6. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 491 students each, so Fairview School sits 52% below that benchmark.
Across the 8 schools in North Sanpete District (2,706 students total), Fairview School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, Fairview School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Fairview School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 50% of students at Fairview School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fairview School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 35.3%; this one delivers 51.8%, a residual of +16.5 points.
In the broader community, Sanpete County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,083, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Sanpete County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,011 students), of which Fairview School is one.
The closest other public school is Pleasant Creek High School, roughly 6.1 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fairview School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 44.5%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Fairview School's enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 290 (now 235).
On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Sanpete County at a glance
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