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Monroe 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 55 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Utah's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Monroe School
Monroe School operates as a mid-sized elementary school in MONROE, Utah, part of Sevier District. Current enrollment sits at 537 students spanning grades K through 5.
Within Sevier District, which oversees 13 schools and 4,658 students, Monroe School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Monroe School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Sevier County as a whole.
On the resource side, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Monroe School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, Monroe School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 36.4%; this one delivers 52.3%, a residual of +15.9 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Sevier County indicate median household income runs about $74,884, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Sevier County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,658 students), of which Monroe School is one.
The closest other public school is South Sevier Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Monroe School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 46.3%.
Monroe School operates from a countryside location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Monroe School's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 593 (now 537). The White share of enrollment shrank from 94% to 89% over that span.
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