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Hillcrest Jr High · MURRAY, UT
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RISE / Utah Aspire+, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Highly Proficient.
English Language Arts
36.3%
State avg 41.4%
District avg 44.0%
County avg 39.0%
-3.0pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
37.3%
State avg 41.8%
District avg 45.3%
County avg 38.8%
-1.2pp since 2023-24
Science
42.2%
State avg 48.1%
District avg 51.0%
County avg 45.5%
-0.7pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 37 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 42 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41, 42, and 48. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points and science scores have held steady.

Rank: Hillcrest Jr High places #91 of 136 Utah middle schools, and #23 of 43 in Salt Lake County for state test proficiency.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.2%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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. Hillcrest Jr   Utah avg

English Language Arts

43392023-2441362024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2536.3%44.0%39.0%41.4%
SY 2023-2439.3%47.0%40.3%43.3%

Mathematics

42392023-2442372024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2537.3%45.3%38.8%41.8%
SY 2023-2438.5%47.6%39.1%42.4%

Science

48432023-2448422024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2542.2%51.0%45.5%48.1%
SY 2023-2442.9%51.6%45.2%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 36.3% mean for English Language Arts at Hillcrest Jr High?
It means about 36.3 percent of students tested at Hillcrest Jr 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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