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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Midvale School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
644
Elementary
DISTRICT 455 · STATE 491
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CANYONS DISTRICT·NCES 490014200312
Midvale School
7830 Chapel Street, MIDVALE, UT 84047 · (801) 826-8725 · Salt Lake County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL644 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 3% of Utah public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Utah public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.6:1 · STATE 21.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
426 students
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 33%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 21 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 99 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 112 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 108 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (108).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientEnglish Language Arts
15.9%
UT avg 41.4% . +1.2pp since 2023
Math
19.0%
UT avg 41.8% . +3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.9% | 19.0% |
| 2023-24 | 14.7% | 15.1% |
% Proficient + Highly Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: RISE / Utah Aspire+. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
16.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.4%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Midvale School
Midvale School's state test result (16.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midvale School this school | 644 | 66.1% | 16.1% |
| Wallace Stegner Academy West Valley WEST VALLEY CITY | 702 | 60.4% | 44.9% |
| Columbia School WEST JORDAN | 599 | 68.1% | 16.1% |
| Stansbury School WEST VALLEY CITY | 582 | 56.0% | 23.4% |
| Wallace Stegner Academy SALT LAKE CITY | 683 | 60.2% | 42.4% |
| Monroe School WEST VALLEY CITY | 512 | 53.5% | 19.8% |
Matched among Utah elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Midvale School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.1% | #551 of 562 | #163 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #530 of 578 ▲ 23 | #154 of 180 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.9% | #554 of 578 ▲ 5 | #160 of 180 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 644 | #142 of 613 | #38 of 184 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #98 of 556 | #35 of 178 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.8% | #136 of 559 | #89 of 179 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.1% | #33 of 582 | #20 of 179 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.6% | #192 of 388 | #87 of 133 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
644
-64 (-9%) vs 2020
-12% since 2010-11, when it was 733
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 644 | 35.1 | 18.3:1 | 66% (426) |
| 2023-24 | 651 | 36.4 | 17.9:1 | 73% (475) |
| 2022-23 | 722 | 35.7 | 20.2:1 | 99% (715) |
| 2020-21 | 708 | N/A | N/A | 100% (705) |
| 2017-18 | 782 | N/A | N/A | 81% (633) |
| 2015-16 | 737 | N/A | N/A | 82% (605) |
| 2010-11 | 733 | 30 | 24.4:1 | 91% (667) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Midvale School.
About Midvale School
Midvale School is a medium-sized elementary school in MIDVALE, Utah, one of the schools in Canyons District. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend, and enrollment is 644 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in Utah is about 491 students.
Canyons District counts 47 schools and 32,688 students, including Midvale School.
A majority of students at Midvale School, 62%, are Hispanic. The remaining shares are 25% White, 4% Black, 3% Pacific Islander, and 2% multiracial. Salt Lake County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at Midvale School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 55%.
With 35.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Midvale School was 18.3:1. Among elementary schools in Utah, the typical ratio is 21.8:1. Midvale School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 66%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Salt Lake County is 34%.
allk12 grades Midvale School an F. The grade compares the school only with Utah public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Midvale School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 16.1%, compared with a predicted 27.4%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Utah schools on BeatsExpectations.
Salt Lake County census figures show that median household income is about $97,494, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. A total of 325 public schools operate in Salt Lake County, serving about 209,757 students.
Midvale Middle is the public school closest to Midvale School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Midvale School is 7th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Midvale School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
The number of students declined from 708 to 644 over 4 years.
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Salt Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,196,523
Census ACS
Median income
$97,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
325
209,757 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Canyons District
- Corner Canyon HighHigh · 2,437 students
- Brighton HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Hillcrest HighHigh · 2,421 students
- Alta HighHigh · 2,278 students
- Jordan HighHigh · 1,820 students
- Draper Park MiddleMiddle · 1,411 students
Other schools in MIDVALE
- Hillcrest HighHigh · 2,421 students
- Midvalley SchoolElementary · 635 students
- East Midvale SchoolElementary · 499 students
- Copperview SchoolElementary · 328 students
- Jordan Valley SchoolCombined · 79 students
Other Midvale schools
One other US public school is named Midvale. Midvale School is the largest of the 2.
- MIDVALE SCHOOLMIDVALE, ID · 137 students
Nearby schools
- Midvale Middle0.1 mi · 802
- Copperview School0.9 mi · 328
- Midvalley School1.0 mi · 635
- Union Middle1.5 mi · 911
- East Midvale School1.5 mi · 499
- Sandy School1.6 mi · 514
Frequently asked questions
About Midvale SchoolHow many students attend Midvale School?
Midvale School enrolls approximately 644 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Midvale School serve?
Midvale School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Midvale School?
Approximately 18.3:1 students per teacher at Midvale School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Midvale School?
At Midvale School, the student body is approximately 25% White, 62% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Midvale School?
Midvale School is overseen by Canyons District in Salt Lake County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.