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Highland Junior High · OGDEN, UT
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RISE / Utah Aspire+, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Highly Proficient.
English Language Arts
14.4%
State avg 41.4%
District avg 27.1%
County avg 33.9%
+0.1pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
10.5%
State avg 41.8%
District avg 25.1%
County avg 33.4%
+5.3pp since 2023-24
Science
12.9%
State avg 48.1%
District avg 29.5%
County avg 39.0%
+5.1pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 11 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 13 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41, 42, and 48. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points and science scores are up about 5 points.

Rank: Highland Junior High places #136 of 136 Utah middle schools, and #13 of 13 in Weber County for state test proficiency.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
12.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.3%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.9pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

2-year history

All grades, all students. Highland Junior   Utah avg

English Language Arts

43142023-2441142024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2514.4%27.1%33.9%41.4%
SY 2023-2414.3%28.7%35.2%43.3%

Mathematics

4252023-2442112024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2510.5%25.1%33.4%41.8%
SY 2023-245.2%22.7%34.6%42.4%

Science

4882023-2448132024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2512.9%29.5%39.0%48.1%
SY 2023-247.8%29.4%38.8%48.5%

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How to read these scores

What is RISE / Utah Aspire+?
RISE / Utah Aspire+ is the statewide standardized test administered by Utah public schools.
What does "% Proficient + Highly Proficient" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 14.4% mean for English Language Arts at Highland Junior High?
It means about 14.4 percent of students tested at Highland Junior High performed at grade level or above on the RISE / Utah Aspire+ English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Utah that year was 41.4%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Utah, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Utah State Board of Education, RISE (grades 3-8) and Utah Aspire Plus (grades 9-10). School-level from the USBE Proficiency Levels xlsx. NCES join via school name (no school code in source). Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient + Highly Proficient" rate (top 2 of 4 RISE/Aspire levels: Below / Approaching / Proficient / Highly Proficient).
How often is it updated?
RISE / Utah Aspire+ is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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