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Which teacher or staff member at Fox Hills School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
553
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 491
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRANITE DISTRICT·NCES 490036000679
Fox Hills School
3775 W 6020 S, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84118 · (385) 646-4828 · Salt Lake County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL553 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 55% of Utah public elementary schools
- B-Test 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
24.6:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.9:1 · STATE 21.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
175 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 102 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (94).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
44.0%
UT avg 41.4% . -3.2pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
UT avg 41.8% . +1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 up about 1 points.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.2% | 48.8% |
% 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
48.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.3%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 Fox Hills School
Fox Hills School's state test result (48.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fox Hills School this school | 553 | 31.6% | 48.7% |
| Bennion School SALT LAKE CITY | 447 | 27.1% | 43.9% |
| Diamond Ridge School SALT LAKE CITY | 483 | 25.5% | 46.3% |
| Falcon Ridge School WEST JORDAN | 674 | 38.6% | 34.9% |
| Neil Armstrong Academy WEST VALLEY | 688 | 31.1% | 46.1% |
| Noah Webster Academy OREM | 520 | 37.7% | 50.0% |
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 Fox Hills School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #260 of 562 | #72 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #229 of 578 ▲ 7 | #59 of 180 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #281 of 578 ▼ 7 | #77 of 180 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 553 | #240 of 613 | #70 of 184 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.6:1 | #517 of 556 | #167 of 178 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.5% | #44 of 559 | #41 of 179 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.6% | #280 of 582 | #92 of 179 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.3% | #83 of 388 | #38 of 133 |
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
553
-171 (-24%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 1,200
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 | 553 | 22.5 | 24.6:1 | 32% (175) |
| 2023-24 | 548 | 22.5 | 24.4:1 | 45% (246) |
| 2022-23 | 570 | 25.5 | 22.4:1 | 49% (277) |
| 2020-21 | 724 | N/A | N/A | 50% (360) |
| 2017-18 | 771 | N/A | N/A | 56% (432) |
| 2015-16 | 841 | N/A | N/A | 57% (481) |
| 2010-11 | 629 | 24 | 26.2:1 | 62% (387) |
| 2000-01 | 819 | 37 | 22.1:1 | 43% (354) |
| 1990-91 | 1,200 | 43 | 27.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fox Hills School.
About Fox Hills School
The public elementary school Fox Hills School is located in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 6, with 553 students on the rolls.
Fox Hills School is one school in an 85-school district, Granite District, which enrolls 59,404 students.
About 52% of the student body at Fox Hills School is White. Smaller groups are 33% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 3% Pacific Islander. County-wide, 70% of Salt Lake County residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 61%.
Its staff includes 22.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 24.6 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Utah, the average ratio is 21.8:1. Fox Hills School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 32%. That is in line with the 34% average for public schools in Salt Lake County.
Among Utah public elementary schools, Fox Hills School outscored 55%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 44.3% for a school in Utah with Fox Hills School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Fox Hills School posts 48.7%.
In the wider Salt Lake County area, the median household earns about $97,494 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Fox Hills School shares Salt Lake County with 324 other public schools.
Fox Hills School's nearest public school is South Kearns School (about 1.0 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Fox Hills School places 2nd out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Fox Hills School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 24%, from 724 to 553.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Granite District
- Granger HighHigh · 3,267 students
- Cyprus HighHigh · 2,762 students
- Taylorsville HighHigh · 2,685 students
- Hunter HighHigh · 2,480 students
- Kearns HighHigh · 2,313 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 2,186 students
Other schools in SALT LAKE CITY
- West HighHigh · 2,503 students
- Brighton HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 2,186 students
- Olympus HighHigh · 2,151 students
- Highland HighHigh · 1,973 students
- East HighHigh · 1,764 students
Nearby schools
- South Kearns School1.0 mi · 536
- Kearns Jr High1.1 mi · 732
- Bennion School1.1 mi · 447
- Entheos Academy Kearns1.1 mi · 579
- Bennion Jr High1.3 mi · 1,022
- Kearns High1.4 mi · 2,313
Frequently asked questions
About Fox Hills SchoolHow large is Fox Hills School?
Fox Hills School enrolls approximately 553 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Fox Hills School serve?
Fox Hills School serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many teachers does Fox Hills School have?
Fox Hills School employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 24.6:1.
How diverse is Fox Hills School?
Fox Hills School reports a student body of 52% White, 33% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Fox Hills School in?
Fox Hills School is part of Granite District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.