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Kings Peak School
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RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 Kings Peak School
Kings Peak School, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in ROOSEVELT, Utah, part of Duchesne District, instructs 479 students, covering grades K through 5.
Across the 15 schools in Duchesne District (5,309 students total), Kings Peak School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Kings Peak School lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Duchesne County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Kings Peak School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Duchesne County runs at roughly 36%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kings Peak School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 43.4%, a residual of -6.8 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Duchesne County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,445 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kings Peak School is one of 14 public schools in Duchesne County (combined enrollment of about 5,270 students).
The closest other public school is Roosevelt Jr High, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Kings Peak School. On composite proficiency, Kings Peak School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.2%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 468 students in 2018 compared to 479 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 3% to 9% over that span.
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Duchesne County at a glance
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Related schools
- Union HighHigh · 1,166 students
- Roosevelt Jr HighMiddle · 787 students
- East SchoolElementary · 450 students
- Centennial SchoolElementary · 438 students
- Duchesne SchoolElementary · 419 students
- Duchesne HighHigh · 408 students
- Union HighHigh · 1,166 students
- Roosevelt Jr HighMiddle · 787 students
- East SchoolElementary · 450 students
- Centennial SchoolElementary · 438 students
- Eagle View SchoolElementary · 278 students
- Basin Online SchoolCombined · 39 students
- Roosevelt Jr High0.6 mi · 787
- East School0.9 mi · 450
- Union High1.1 mi · 1,166
- Basin Online School1.2 mi · 39
- Centennial School1.5 mi · 438
- Eagle View School5.5 mi · 278