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If you could change one rule at Highland Park School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
478
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 491
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SALT LAKE DISTRICT·NCES 490087000497
Highland Park School
1738 E 2700 S, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84106 · (801) 481-4833 · Salt Lake County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL478 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 97% of Utah public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Utah public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 21.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
94 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 33%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 59 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 10% larger than its 6th grade class (59).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientEnglish Language Arts
67.7%
UT avg 41.4% . -2.4pp since 2023
Math
74.7%
UT avg 41.8% . +0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 have held steady.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.7% | 74.7% |
| 2023-24 | 70.1% | 73.9% |
% Proficient + Highly Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: RISE / Utah Aspire+. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of UT schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.2%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in Utah's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Highland Park School
Highland Park School's state test result (73.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Park School this school | 478 | 19.7% | 73.3% |
| Viewmont School MURRAY | 433 | 21.7% | 59.8% |
| Three Mile Creek School PERRY | 531 | 19.6% | 56.0% |
| Willow School GRANTSVILLE | 425 | 17.6% | 34.5% |
| East Layton School EAST LAYTON | 510 | 18.0% | 47.3% |
| Kings Peak School ROOSEVELT | 479 | 19.6% | 43.4% |
Matched among Utah elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Highland Park School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.3% | #21 of 562 | #14 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.7% | #16 of 578 ▲ 7 | #12 of 180 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.7% | #25 of 578 ▲ 4 | #16 of 180 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 478 | #351 of 613 | #100 of 184 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #65 of 556 | #21 of 178 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.2% | #390 of 559 | #158 of 179 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.7% | #418 of 582 | #130 of 179 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.8% | #100 of 388 | #43 of 133 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
478
-55 (-10%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 767
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 478 | 27.1 | 17.6:1 | 20% (94) |
| 2023-24 | 502 | 27 | 18.6:1 | 20% (101) |
| 2022-23 | 493 | 27.6 | 17.9:1 | 17% (84) |
| 2020-21 | 533 | N/A | N/A | 15% (78) |
| 2017-18 | 653 | N/A | N/A | 23% (151) |
| 2015-16 | 699 | N/A | N/A | 24% (169) |
| 2010-11 | 596 | 30 | 19.9:1 | 29% (174) |
| 2000-01 | 624 | 31 | 20.1:1 | 21% (133) |
| 1990-91 | 767 | 28 | 27.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Highland Park School.
About Highland Park School
Highland Park School is a public elementary school run by Salt Lake District in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Total enrollment is 478 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 6.
Salt Lake District has 20,086 students in 39 schools, and Highland Park School is one of those schools.
At Highland Park School, 81% of students are White. Smaller groups are 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% Pacific Islander. For comparison, the population of Salt Lake County is roughly 70% White. The diversity index for Highland Park School is 33%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.6:1. The school has 27.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 17.6:1 compares with an average of 21.8:1 for elementary schools in Utah. Federal data show 20% of students (94) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 34% average for public schools in Salt Lake County is 14 points.
Highland Park School holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 97% of Utah public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Highland Park School is +23.1 points, in the top 10% of Utah. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 73.3%, and the predicted rate is 50.2%.
Salt Lake County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $97,494 a year, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Salt Lake County number 325, with about 209,757 students.
Jean Massieu School for the Deaf sits about 0.7 miles from Highland Park School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 6 nearby schools that report test results, Highland Park School ranks 1st on proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Highland Park School is City: Mid-size.
Enrollment decreased 10% over 4 years, reaching 478 in 2024-25.
The allk12 page for Highland Park School lets the school community talk about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Salt Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,196,523
Census ACS
Median income
$97,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
325
209,757 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Salt Lake District
- West HighHigh · 2,503 students
- Highland HighHigh · 1,973 students
- East HighHigh · 1,764 students
- Glendale MiddleMiddle · 678 students
- Mountain View SchoolElementary · 629 students
- Clayton MiddleMiddle · 567 students
Other schools in SALT LAKE CITY
- West HighHigh · 2,503 students
- Brighton HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 2,186 students
- Olympus HighHigh · 2,151 students
- Highland HighHigh · 1,973 students
- East HighHigh · 1,764 students
Other Highland Park schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Highland Park. Highland Park School is the largest of the 5.
- Highland Park SchoolManchester, CT · 300 students
- Highland Park SchoolHavre, MT · 288 students
- Highland Park SchoolLewistown, MT · 159 students
- Highland Park SchoolMiles City, MT · 126 students
Nearby schools
- Jean Massieu School for the Deaf0.7 mi · 147
- Blind Region 20.7 mi · 16
- Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts0.8 mi · 163
- Highland High0.9 mi · 1,973
- Evergreen Jr High1.0 mi · 600
- Rosecrest School1.1 mi · 334
Frequently asked questions
About Highland Park SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Highland Park School?
Highland Park School enrolls approximately 478 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Highland Park School serve?
Highland Park School serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Highland Park School?
Approximately 17.6:1 students per teacher at Highland Park School.
What is the student diversity at Highland Park School?
Student demographics at Highland Park School are roughly 81% White, 9% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Highland Park School in?
Highland Park School is part of Salt Lake District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.