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Farmington Jr High
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 Farmington Jr High
Farmington Jr High is a sprawling 6-8 campus in FARMINGTON, Utah, part of Davis District. The school enrolls 1,266 students in grades 7 through 9. That puts it 52% above the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 831 students.
Farmington Jr High is one of 95 schools operated by Davis District, a district that instructs 71,703 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Farmington Jr High records that nearly all students (89%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, Farmington Jr High logs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.7:1 average. An estimated 8% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Davis County (around 19%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Farmington Jr High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.0%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of -4.7 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Davis County indicate median household earnings sit near $110,884, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Davis County runs 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,110 students), of which Farmington Jr High is one.
Nearest neighbor: Farmington School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Farmington Jr High comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.6%.
Farmington Jr High operates from a residential location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 3%: 1,229 students in 2018 compared to 1,266 in 2025.
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