Juab Jr High

Juab Jr High is one of the compact junior highs in NEPHI, Utah, overseen by Juab District, with 629 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 24% smaller than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 831 students.

Juab District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,758 students; Juab Jr High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Juab Jr High logs that nearly all students (89%) are White; the rest breaks down as 8% Hispanic.

On the resource side, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.7:1 average. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Juab Jr High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.5%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Juab County indicate median household earnings sit near $101,786, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Juab County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,034 students), Juab Jr High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Juab High, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Juab Jr High. On composite proficiency, Juab Jr High comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

Juab Jr High operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Juab Jr High has climbed 61%, going from 390 students in 2018 to 629 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 95% to 89% over that span.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.