Kanab Middle
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Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Kanab Middle
Set in KANAB, Utah, Kanab Middle is a minimally staffed middle-grades school, one of the schools within Kane District. It works with 160 students across grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 81% smaller than the state mean of about 831.
Kane District runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 1,484 students. Kanab Middle is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Kanab Middle reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic. Compared to Kane County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, The school reports having 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.7:1. The state averages around 21.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, Kanab Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.0%; this one delivers 53.5%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kane County) records that median household income runs about $77,092, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kane County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,484 students), Kanab Middle is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Kanab High, roughly 0.2 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kanab Middle ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 52.1%.
Kanab Middle operates from an outlying location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Kanab Middle's enrollment has increased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 142 (now 160).
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Kane County at a glance
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