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Harris Intermediate
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 Harris Intermediate
Located at 515 N 800 W, in TREMONTON, Utah, Harris Intermediate is a moderately sized 6-8 campus that enrolls 862 students (grades 6 through 7), part of Box Elder District.
Within Box Elder District, which oversees 22 schools and 12,554 students, Harris Intermediate is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Harris Intermediate logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Beyond that, the school logs 11% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 35% of students at Harris Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harris Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.8%, the actual is 38.4%, a residual of -4.4 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Box Elder County shows median household income runs about $84,550, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Box Elder County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,997 students), Harris Intermediate is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: North Park School, around 0.6 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harris Intermediate ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 45.3%.
Harris Intermediate operates from a town-center location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harris Intermediate has edged up 9%, going from 788 students in 2018 to 862 in 2025.
On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Box Elder County at a glance
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