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Which teacher or staff member at Monroe School deserves more recognition?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
512
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 491
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRANITE DISTRICT·NCES 490036000244
Monroe School
4450 W 3100 S, WEST VALLEY CITY, UT 84120 · (385) 646-4918 · Salt Lake County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL512 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of Utah public elementary schools
- DTest 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
19.7:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.9:1 · STATE 21.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
274 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 37 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 79 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 19% smaller than its 6th grade class (79).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
16.7%
UT avg 41.4% . +0.7pp since 2023
Math
12.1%
UT avg 41.8% . +1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 16.7% | 12.1% |
| 2023-24 | 16.0% | 10.3% |
% 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
19.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.6%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Monroe School
Monroe School's state test result (19.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe School this school | 512 | 53.5% | 19.8% |
| Ascent Academies of Utah - West Valley WEST VALLEY CITY | 425 | 54.4% | 22.5% |
| Philo T. Farnsworth School WEST VALLEY CITY | 448 | 49.1% | 23.4% |
| Rolling Meadows School WEST VALLEY CITY | 456 | 47.1% | 32.0% |
| Douglas T. Orchard School WEST VALLEY CITY | 411 | 48.9% | 24.6% |
| David Gourley School KEARNS | 423 | 47.3% | 35.2% |
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 Monroe School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.8% | #536 of 562 | #151 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.1% | #570 of 578 ▼ 1 | #175 of 180 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 16.7% | #551 of 578 ▲ 4 | #158 of 180 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 512 | #301 of 613 | #85 of 184 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.7:1 | #161 of 556 | #58 of 178 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.7% | #97 of 559 | #73 of 179 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.5% | #96 of 582 | #40 of 179 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.6% | #66 of 388 | #31 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
512
-71 (-12%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 690
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 | 512 | 26 | 19.7:1 | 54% (274) |
| 2023-24 | 488 | 27.5 | 17.8:1 | 75% (367) |
| 2022-23 | 563 | 26.8 | 21.0:1 | 81% (457) |
| 2020-21 | 583 | N/A | N/A | 85% (494) |
| 2017-18 | 727 | N/A | N/A | 89% (644) |
| 2015-16 | 757 | N/A | N/A | 84% (636) |
| 2010-11 | 791 | 26 | 30.4:1 | 84% (668) |
| 2000-01 | 669 | 32 | 20.9:1 | 57% (378) |
| 1990-91 | 690 | 29 | 23.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Monroe School.
About Monroe School
Monroe School is the name of a medium-sized elementary school in WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah. The school counts 512 students across pre-K through 6.
The district for Monroe School is Granite District, with 85 schools and 59,404 students.
Hispanic students are the majority at Monroe School, with 58% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 29% White, 5% Pacific Islander, 4% Black, and 3% Asian. Among all residents of Salt Lake County, the Hispanic share is about 21%. Pick two students at random and there is a 58% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Monroe School operates with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 19.7:1. That is lower than the 21.8:1 average for elementary schools in Utah. About 54% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. That is 20 points above the 34% average for public schools in Salt Lake County.
Monroe School is graded F by allk12, scoring above 4% of Utah public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Monroe School is 13.8 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 19.8% actual, 33.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Utah.
Census Bureau estimates for Salt Lake County show that the median household income is $97,494, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. There are 325 public schools in Salt Lake County, enrolling about 209,757 students in all.
Monticello Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles away. The five-mile area around Monroe School holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Monroe School ranks 6th of 8 nearby schools, at 19.8% versus a 29.7% average.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment declined 12% from its 2020-21 level of 583.
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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 Granite District
- Granger HighHigh · 3,267 students
- Cyprus HighHigh · 2,762 students
- Taylorsville HighHigh · 2,685 students
- Hunter HighHigh · 2,480 students
- Kearns HighHigh · 2,313 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 2,186 students
Other schools in WEST VALLEY CITY
- Granger HighHigh · 3,267 students
- Hunter HighHigh · 2,480 students
- American Preparatory Academy - Accelerated SchoolCombined · 1,556 students
- Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12Combined · 777 students
- John F. Kennedy Jr HighMiddle · 772 students
- West Valley SchoolElementary · 764 students
Other Monroe schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Monroe. Monroe School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Monroe SchoolMONROE, UT · 537 students
- Monroe SchoolBurns, OR · 15 students
Nearby schools
- Monticello Academy0.6 mi · 689
- Esperanza School0.8 mi · 575
- American Preparatory Academy - Accelerated School1.0 mi · 1,556
- Valley Crest School1.0 mi · 455
- Neil Armstrong Academy1.0 mi · 688
- Jackling School1.0 mi · 415
Frequently asked questions
About Monroe SchoolHow many students attend Monroe School?
Monroe School enrolls approximately 512 students in grades PK-06.
Is Monroe School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Monroe School is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Monroe School have?
Monroe School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Monroe School?
Student demographics at Monroe School are roughly 29% White, 58% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Monroe School in?
Monroe School is part of Granite District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.