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Manti School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Manti School
Manti School is one of the tight-knit elementary-level communitys in MANTI, Utah, one of the schools within South Sanpete District, with 408 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
Manti School is one of 8 schools operated by South Sanpete District, a district that caters to 3,305 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Manti School shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Manti School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.0:1. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 52% of students at Manti School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Manti School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.3%; this one delivers 46.8%.
Across the wider county, Sanpete County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,083, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Sanpete County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,011 students), of which Manti School is one.
South Sanpete Education Support Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Manti School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.7%.
The campus sits in a countryside setting.
Five-year trend. Manti School's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 478 (now 408).
On the community side, the feed for Manti School typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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