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Enrollment
732
Middle
DISTRICT 777 · STATE 831
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRANITE DISTRICT·NCES 490036000235
Kearns Jr High
4040 West Sam's Blvd, KEARNS, UT 84118 · (385) 646-5204 · Salt Lake County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL732 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% of Utah public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Utah public middle schools
Student : Teacher
18.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.3:1 · STATE 21.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
505 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 33%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 238 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 247 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 247 | 34% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientEnglish Language Arts
18.6%
UT avg 41.4% . -0.8pp since 2023
Math
12.7%
UT avg 41.8% . -1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.6% | 12.7% |
| 2023-24 | 19.4% | 14.1% |
% Proficient + Highly Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: RISE / Utah Aspire+. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
18.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.1%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 →
Schools most like Kearns Jr High
Kearns Jr High's state test result (18.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kearns Jr High this school | 732 | 69.0% | 18.8% |
| Highland Junior High OGDEN | 649 | 68.6% | 12.4% |
| John F. Kennedy Jr High WEST VALLEY CITY | 772 | 64.2% | 17.5% |
| West Lake Jr High WEST VALLEY CITY | 724 | 64.2% | 23.4% |
| Mound Fort Junior High OGDEN | 561 | 75.6% | 23.4% |
| Valley Jr High WEST VALLEY CITY | 546 | 63.2% | 20.1% |
Matched among Utah middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Kearns Jr High ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.8% | #131 of 136 | #39 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.7% | #138 of 140 ▼ 2 | #43 of 44 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.6% | #136 of 140 ▼ 1 | #41 of 44 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 732 | #90 of 144 | #28 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.4:1 | #20 of 137 | #5 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.0% | #24 of 137 | #20 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.0% | #6 of 141 | #5 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +34.3% | #4 of 46 | #2 of 16 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
732
+159 (+28%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 1,199
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 732 | 39.9 | 18.4:1 | 69% (505) |
| 2023-24 | 792 | 41.8 | 19.0:1 | 76% (601) |
| 2022-23 | 778 | 41 | 19.0:1 | 73% (567) |
| 2020-21 | 573 | N/A | N/A | 76% (433) |
| 2017-18 | 545 | N/A | N/A | 80% (437) |
| 2015-16 | 536 | N/A | N/A | 82% (438) |
| 2010-11 | 800 | 41 | 19.5:1 | 76% (609) |
| 2000-01 | 1,087 | 56 | 19.4:1 | 44% (478) |
| 1990-91 | 1,199 | 48 | 25.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kearns Jr High.
About Kearns Jr High
Kearns Jr High is a mid-sized middle-grades school in Utah, located in KEARNS. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 732 students.
Kearns Jr High is run by Granite District, whose 85 schools enroll 59,404 students.
About 58% of the student body at Kearns Jr High is Hispanic. Smaller groups are 30% White, 4% Pacific Islander, 4% Black, and 3% multiracial. County-wide, 21% of Salt Lake County residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 57% means there is a 57% chance two randomly chosen students at Kearns Jr High are from different groups.
Based on 39.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, Kearns Jr High has a ratio of 18.4:1. Compared with the 21.7:1 average for middle schools in Utah, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 69%. Across public schools in Salt Lake County, the average is 34%.
Among Utah public middle schools, Kearns Jr High outscored 10%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 26.1% at Kearns Jr High; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 18.8%.
In Salt Lake County, the median household earns about $97,494 a year, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The county's public schools total 325, with about 209,757 students.
David Gourley School, about 0.5 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Kearns Jr High places 5th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES describes the area around Kearns Jr High as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment increased 28% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Salt Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,196,523
Census ACS
Median income
$97,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
325
209,757 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Granite District
- Granger HighHigh · 3,267 students
- Cyprus HighHigh · 2,762 students
- Taylorsville HighHigh · 2,685 students
- Hunter HighHigh · 2,480 students
- Kearns HighHigh · 2,313 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 2,186 students
Other schools in KEARNS
- Kearns HighHigh · 2,313 students
- Thomas Jefferson Jr HighMiddle · 915 students
- Entheos Academy KearnsCombined · 579 students
- West Kearns SchoolElementary · 548 students
- South Kearns SchoolElementary · 536 students
- Beehive SchoolElementary · 489 students
Nearby schools
- David Gourley School0.5 mi · 423
- South Kearns School0.6 mi · 536
- Arcadia School0.9 mi · 433
- West Kearns School0.9 mi · 548
- Kearns High1.0 mi · 2,313
- Fox Hills School1.1 mi · 553
Frequently asked questions
About Kearns Jr HighHow many students attend Kearns Jr High?
Kearns Jr High enrolls approximately 732 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Kearns Jr High serve?
Kearns Jr High serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kearns Jr High?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kearns Jr High is approximately 18.4:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Kearns Jr High?
Student demographics at Kearns Jr High are roughly 30% White, 58% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Kearns Jr High in?
Kearns Jr High is part of Granite District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.