Mound Fort Junior High

Mound Fort Junior High is a middle-grades school of low-enrollment scale in OGDEN, Utah, operated by Ogden City District, educateing 561 students in grades 7 through 9. That puts it 32% below the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 831 students.

Ogden City District runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 10,244 students. Mound Fort Junior High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mound Fort Junior High lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 34% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Weber County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mound Fort Junior High has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.7:1, putting Mound Fort Junior High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 76% of students at Mound Fort Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Weber County (around 35%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Mound Fort Junior High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.8%; this one delivers 23.4%.

In the area at large, census data for Weber County shows median household income runs about $90,005, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Weber County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 49,670 students), of which Mound Fort Junior High is one.

The closest other public school is Canyon View Preschool, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mound Fort Junior High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 24.7%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 23%: 728 students in 2018 compared to 561 in 2025.

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