Mountain Creek Middle School

Mountain Creek Middle School operates as a sizable middle school in South Jordan, Utah, overseen by Jordan District. Current enrollment sits at 1,313 students spanning grades 7 through 9. That puts it 58% above the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 831 students.

Jordan District comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 58,788 students; Mountain Creek Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Mountain Creek Middle School shows that 73% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 14% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

With demographic context factored in, Mountain Creek Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.2%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Salt Lake County put median household earnings sit near $97,494, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Mountain Creek Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Golden Fields School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mountain Creek Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mountain Creek Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.1%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

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