Kearns Jr High

Kearns Jr High, a middle-of-the-pack middle school in KEARNS, Utah, part of Granite District, works with 732 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Granite District comprises 85 schools with combined enrollment of 59,404 students; Kearns Jr High is among them.

Demographically, Kearns Jr High records that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 30% White, 4% Pacific Islander, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Salt Lake County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Kearns Jr High has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.4:1. The state averages around 21.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Salt Lake County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Kearns Jr High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.1%; this one delivers 18.8%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Salt Lake County put median household earnings sit near $97,494, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Kearns Jr High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: David Gourley School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kearns Jr High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 28.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kearns Jr High has climbed 34%, going from 545 students in 2018 to 732 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 49% to 58%.

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