Milford School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Milford School
Milford School is an elementary-level community of modestly sized scale in MILFORD, Utah, run under Beaver District, teacheing 211 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 57% below the state mean of about 491.
Milford School is one of 7 schools operated by Beaver District, a district that instructs 1,471 students overall.
On demographics, Milford School shows that 75% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 20% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.
On the resource side, Milford School logs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, Milford School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.2%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of +14.3 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Beaver County put median household earnings sit near $79,360, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Beaver County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,471 students), of which Milford School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Milford High, around 0.4 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Milford School at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 48.0%.
Milford School operates from a low-density location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 231 students in 2018 compared to 211 in 2025.
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