Jefferson Academy

Jefferson Academy is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in KAYSVILLE, Utah, run under Jefferson Academy, serveing 502 students in grades K through 6.

Jefferson Academy is a school of Jefferson Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jefferson Academy reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Jefferson Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Jefferson Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.4%, the actual is 57.5%, a residual of +4.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Davis County indicate the typical household earns roughly $110,884 per year, 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, Davis County runs 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,110 students), of which Jefferson Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Snow Horse School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jefferson Academy. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Academy comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting. Jefferson Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 579 students in 2018 compared to 502 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 82% across the same window.

On this page, members of the Jefferson Academy community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.