Highland Park School

Highland Park School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, run under Salt Lake District, hosts 478 students, covering grades K through 6.

Across the 39 schools in Salt Lake District (20,086 students total), Highland Park School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Highland Park School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Salt Lake County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Highland Park School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Highland Park School ranks in the top 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 50.2%; Highland Park School posts 73.3%, +23.1 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Salt Lake County shows median household earnings sit near $97,494, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Highland Park School is one.

Blind Region 2 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Highland Park School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 56.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Highland Park School's enrollment has decreased 27% since 2018, when it stood at 653 (now 478).

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