Legacy Preparatory Academy

Legacy Preparatory Academy, a medium-sized combined-grade school in WOODS CROSS, Utah, one of the schools within Legacy Preparatory Academy, serves 1,016 students, covering grades K through 9. Compared to the state average of about 687 students per school, that is 48% bigger than typical.

Legacy Preparatory Academy is a school of Legacy Preparatory Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Legacy Preparatory Academy logs that 70% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 20% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the resource side, On paper, Legacy Preparatory Academy has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.7:1. The state averages around 19.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Legacy Preparatory Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.3%; this one delivers 46.1%.

Around the school, Davis County reports that the typical household earns roughly $110,884 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Davis County's 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,110 students), Legacy Preparatory Academy is one campus in the mix.

Odyssey School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Legacy Preparatory Academy comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area. Legacy Preparatory Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Legacy Preparatory Academy has edged down 8%, going from 1,108 students in 2018 to 1,016 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 80% to 70%.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.