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Mount Mahogany School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 27% 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 Mount Mahogany School
Mount Mahogany School is a mid-tier K-5 school in PLEASANT GROVE, Utah, run under Alpine District. The school instructs 631 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 29% larger than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 491 students.
Mount Mahogany School is one of 89 schools operated by Alpine District, a district that educates 86,645 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Mount Mahogany School shows that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 38% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Mount Mahogany School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.2:1. The state averages about 21.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Utah County (around 22%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Mount Mahogany School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 27.0%, a residual of -7.5 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Utah County put median household earnings sit near $100,671, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mount Mahogany School is one of 202 public schools in Utah County (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students).
Nearest neighbor: Dan W. Peterson, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mount Mahogany School. On composite proficiency, Mount Mahogany School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Over the past 7-year window. Mount Mahogany School's enrollment has shrank 28% since 2018, when it stood at 877 (now 631). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 73% to 52% over that span.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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