M. Lynn Bennion School

M. Lynn Bennion School, a very small elementary school in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, one of the schools within Salt Lake District, instructs 171 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 491 students each, so M. Lynn Bennion School sits 65% below that benchmark.

Within Salt Lake District, which oversees 39 schools and 20,086 students, M. Lynn Bennion School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, M. Lynn Bennion School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 25% White, 9% Asian, 9% Black, 6% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Salt Lake County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, M. Lynn Bennion School shows 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at M. Lynn Bennion School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Salt Lake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which M. Lynn Bennion School is one.

The closest other public school is City Academy, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

M. Lynn Bennion School operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 6-year window, the student count declined 30%: 244 students in 2018 compared to 171 in 2024. Over the same period, the White share fell from 31% to 25%.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.