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Harvest School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 Harvest School
Harvest School is a substantial elementary campus in SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah, operated by Alpine District. The school serves 1,031 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 110% larger than the state mean of about 491.
Alpine District runs 89 schools in total, collectively educating 86,645 students. Harvest School is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Harvest School shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.
Looking at school resources, Harvest School logs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.4:1. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Utah County's rate of about 22%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Harvest School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.2%; this one delivers 66.7%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Utah County put median household earnings sit near $100,671, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Utah County's 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), Harvest School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Ascent Academies of Utah Saratoga Springs, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harvest School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harvest School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 48.1%.
Harvest School operates from a residential location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harvest School has grew 4%, going from 993 students in 2018 to 1,031 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 81% to 73% over that span.
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