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Freedom Preparatory Academy
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 Freedom Preparatory Academy
Freedom Preparatory Academy is a well-populated multi-level school in PROVO, Utah, run under Freedom Preparatory Academy. The school enrolls 1,248 students in grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 82% bigger than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 687 students.
Freedom Preparatory Academy runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 2,165 students. Freedom Preparatory Academy is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Freedom Preparatory Academy lists that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 46% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Utah County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school lists 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.9:1, putting Freedom Preparatory Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 42% of students at Freedom Preparatory Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Utah County (around 22%), the school's rate is north of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Freedom Preparatory Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.1%; this one delivers 32.7%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Utah County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $100,671 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Utah County runs 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), of which Freedom Preparatory Academy is one.
Independence High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Freedom Preparatory Academy. On composite proficiency, Freedom Preparatory Academy comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.
The school occupies an inner-city site. As a public charter, Freedom Preparatory Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Five-year trend. Freedom Preparatory Academy's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 1,222 (now 1,248). Hispanic enrollment moved from 38% to 46% across the same window.
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