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H C Burton School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 H C Burton School
H C Burton School is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in KAYSVILLE, Utah, one of the schools within Davis District, enrolling 687 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 40% above the state mean of about 491.
Davis District comprises 95 schools with combined enrollment of 71,703 students; H C Burton School is among them.
On the student-mix side, H C Burton School lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, H C Burton School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting H C Burton School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Davis County runs at roughly 19%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, H C Burton School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.3%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Davis County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $110,884 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Davis County's 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,110 students), H C Burton School is one campus in the mix.
Utah Career Path High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around H C Burton School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), H C Burton School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 776 students in 2018 compared to 687 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, the feed for H C Burton School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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