Mapleton Junior High

Mapleton Junior High is one of the roomy 6-8 campuss in MAPLETON, Utah, overseen by Nebo District, with 1,312 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 9. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 831 students each, so Mapleton Junior High sits 58% above that benchmark.

Within Nebo District, which oversees 49 schools and 43,696 students, Mapleton Junior High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Mapleton Junior High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Utah County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mapleton Junior High has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.7:1, putting Mapleton Junior High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 14% of students at Mapleton Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mapleton Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.8%, the actual is 42.7%, a residual of -10.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Utah County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $100,671 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Mapleton Junior High is one of 202 public schools in Utah County (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hobble Creek School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mapleton Junior High comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 7%: 1,231 students in 2018 compared to 1,312 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 82% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Mapleton Junior High community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.