McPolin School

McPolin School is a K-5 school of small scale in PARK CITY, Utah, overseen by Park City District, instructing 382 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 491 students per school, that is 22% smaller than typical.

Park City District runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 4,269 students. McPolin School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, McPolin School lists that White students make up the majority at 61%; the rest looks like 31% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the resource side, McPolin School logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Summit County (around 17%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McPolin School ranks in the top 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 46.1%; McPolin School posts 67.9%, +21.8 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Summit County) shows that median household earnings sit near $138,114, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Summit County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,485 students), of which McPolin School is one.

The closest other public school is Treasure Mtn. Junior High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, McPolin School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.0%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. McPolin School's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 407 (now 382). The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 44% to 31% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for McPolin School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.