Fort Herriman Middle

Located at 14050 S MIRABELLA DR, in HERRIMAN, Utah, Fort Herriman Middle is a mid-sized 6-8 campus that educates 1,195 students (grades 7 through 9), part of Jordan District. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 831 students each, so Fort Herriman Middle sits 44% larger than that benchmark.

Fort Herriman Middle is one of 67 schools operated by Jordan District, a district that hosts 58,788 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Fort Herriman Middle logs that nearly all students (81%) are White; the rest consists of 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, Fort Herriman Middle shows 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.7:1 average. Roughly 10% of students at Fort Herriman Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Salt Lake County (around 34%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fort Herriman Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.9%, the actual is 49.7%, a residual of -5.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Salt Lake County shows median household income runs about $97,494, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Fort Herriman Middle is one.

Blackridge School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fort Herriman Middle comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.1%.

Fort Herriman Middle operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 27%: 1,629 students in 2018 compared to 1,195 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 90% to 81% over that span.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.