Hawthorn Academy South Jordan

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, Hawthorn Academy South Jordan caters to 621 students from grades K through 6, run under Hawthorn Academy. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 491 students each, so Hawthorn Academy South Jordan sits 26% larger than that benchmark.

Hawthorn Academy South Jordan is one of 2 schools operated by Hawthorn Academy, a district that educates 1,364 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hawthorn Academy South Jordan logs that White students make up the majority at 62%; the rest comes out to 22% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.0:1. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hawthorn Academy South Jordan tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Salt Lake County indicate median household earnings sit near $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%. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Hawthorn Academy South Jordan is one.

Nearest neighbor: South Jordan School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hawthorn Academy South Jordan. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hawthorn Academy South Jordan at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 56.8%.

Hawthorn Academy South Jordan operates from an outer-ring location. Hawthorn Academy South Jordan is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Hawthorn Academy South Jordan's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 623 (now 621). Over the same period, the White share declined from 69% to 62%.

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