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Jordan Hills School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Jordan Hills School
As a reasonably sized elementary campus in WEST JORDAN, Utah, Jordan Hills School works with 631 students from grades K through 6, run under Jordan District. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 491 students each, so Jordan Hills School sits 29% larger than that benchmark.
Jordan District runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 58,788 students. Jordan Hills School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Jordan Hills School lists that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Pacific Islander. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, Jordan Hills School logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.
With demographic context factored in, Jordan Hills School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of +14.9 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Salt Lake County put the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Jordan Hills School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Copper Hills High, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jordan Hills School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jordan Hills School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 35.7%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jordan Hills School has expanded 3%, going from 613 students in 2018 to 631 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 81% to 71%.
On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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