Granger School

Granger School, a mid-sized primary school in WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, operated by Granite District, enrolls 716 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 46% larger than the state mean of about 491.

Across the 85 schools in Granite District (59,404 students total), Granger School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Granger School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder is composed of 20% White, 5% Asian, 4% Pacific Islander, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Salt Lake County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Granger School is in the bottom 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.6%; Granger School posts 17.5%, -18.1 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Salt Lake County indicate median household income runs about $97,494, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Granger School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Taylorsville School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Granger School. On composite proficiency, Granger School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 29.0%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Granger School's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 928 (now 716).

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