Hanksville School

As a micro-enrollment elementary school in HANKSVILLE, Utah, Hanksville School educates 24 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under Wayne District. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 491 students each, so Hanksville School sits 95% below that benchmark.

Within Wayne District, which oversees 4 schools and 561 students, Hanksville School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hanksville School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest looks like 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 92% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Wayne County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hanksville School is in the bottom 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 21.1%; Hanksville School posts 0.0%, -21.1 points below that line.

Around the school, Wayne County reports that median household income runs about $76,607, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Wayne County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 561 students), of which Hanksville School is one.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Hanksville School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 24 (now 24). Over the same period, the White share edged up from 75% to 83%.

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