Midas Creek School

Midas Creek School is a sprawling K-5 school in RIVERTON, Utah, one of the schools within Jordan District. The school hosts 759 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 55% bigger than the state mean of about 491.

Jordan District runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 58,788 students. Midas Creek School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Midas Creek School records that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Midas Creek School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 51.9%.

Around the school, census data for Salt Lake County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Midas Creek School is one campus in the mix.

Daybreak School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Midas Creek School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Midas Creek School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 40.6%.

Midas Creek School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Midas Creek School has decreased 15%, going from 898 students in 2018 to 759 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 78% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Midas Creek School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.