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How has Morningside School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
564
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 491
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRANITE DISTRICT·NCES 490036000245
Morningside School
4170 S 3000 E, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84124 · (385) 646-4924 · Salt Lake County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL564 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 94% of Utah public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
23.0:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.9:1 · STATE 21.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
41 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 70 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 117 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 105 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 33% smaller than its 5th grade class (105).
Student demographics
36%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
71.2%
UT avg 41.4% . +1.3pp since 2023
Math
74.8%
UT avg 41.8% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 1 points.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.2% | 74.8% |
| 2023-24 | 69.9% | 73.8% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of UT schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
72.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.3%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% 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 17 points, placing it in Utah's top 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 Morningside School
Morningside School's state test result (72.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morningside School this school | 564 | 7.3% | 72.8% |
| Lone Peak School SANDY | 516 | 6.8% | 66.7% |
| Uintah School SALT LAKE CITY | 464 | 8.8% | 78.5% |
| Jefferson Academy KAYSVILLE | 502 | 13.1% | 57.5% |
| Alpine School ALPINE | 539 | 9.1% | 74.7% |
| Howard R. Driggs School SALT LAKE CITY | 469 | 6.0% | 81.4% |
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 Morningside School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.8% | #23 of 562 | #15 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.8% | #15 of 578 ▲ 9 | #11 of 180 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.2% | #16 of 578 ▲ 15 | #12 of 180 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 564 | #224 of 613 | #65 of 184 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.0:1 | #443 of 556 | #147 of 178 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.1% | #349 of 559 | #150 of 179 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.3% | #565 of 582 | #172 of 179 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.4% | #299 of 388 | #117 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
564
-12 (-2%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 687
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 | 564 | 24.5 | 23.0:1 | 7% (41) |
| 2023-24 | 585 | 26 | 22.5:1 | 11% (63) |
| 2022-23 | 573 | 24.5 | 23.4:1 | 11% (65) |
| 2020-21 | 576 | N/A | N/A | 13% (72) |
| 2017-18 | 616 | N/A | N/A | 14% (84) |
| 2015-16 | 710 | N/A | N/A | 16% (112) |
| 2010-11 | 435 | 12 | 36.3:1 | 15% (66) |
| 2000-01 | 375 | 15 | 25.0:1 | 8% (30) |
| 1990-91 | 687 | 26 | 26.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Morningside School.
About Morningside School
At 4170 S 3000 E in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Morningside School operates as a mid-sized elementary school. It teaches 564 students in kindergarten through 6.
Morningside School sits within Granite District, which has 85 schools and 59,404 students.
About 79% of the student body at Morningside School is White. Other groups make up 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 5% Asian. County-wide, 70% of Salt Lake County residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 36%.
On staff are 24.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 23.0:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Utah average 21.8:1. Morningside School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 7%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Salt Lake County is 34%.
Morningside School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 94% of Utah public elementary schools.
Compared with Utah schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Morningside School does better than predicted by 16.6 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 72.8%; the prediction is 56.3%.
For the population of Salt Lake County, median household income comes to about $97,494, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Salt Lake County's 325 public schools enroll about 209,757 students and include Morningside School.
About 0.5 miles separate Morningside School from the closest public school, Howard R. Driggs School. The five-mile area around Morningside School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Morningside School at 3rd of 9.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 576 to 564.
The discussion board for Morningside School is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 SALT LAKE CITY
- West HighHigh · 2,503 students
- Brighton HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 2,186 students
- Olympus HighHigh · 2,151 students
- Highland HighHigh · 1,973 students
- East HighHigh · 1,764 students
Other Morningside schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Morningside. Morningside School is the largest of the 3.
- MorningsideDelano, CA · 477 students
- Morningside SchoolGreat Falls, MT · 204 students
Nearby schools
- Howard R. Driggs School0.5 mi · 469
- Churchill Jr High0.6 mi · 521
- Wasatch Jr High0.7 mi · 829
- Upland Terrace School0.7 mi · 477
- Skyline High0.8 mi · 2,186
- Olympus High0.9 mi · 2,151
Frequently asked questions
About Morningside SchoolHow large is Morningside School?
Morningside School enrolls approximately 564 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Morningside School serve?
Morningside School serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Morningside School?
Approximately 23.0:1 students per teacher at Morningside School.
How diverse is Morningside School?
Morningside School reports a student body of 79% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Morningside School?
Morningside School is overseen by Granite District in Salt Lake County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.