Mountain Point Elementary

Mountain Point Elementary is one of the well-populated elementary-level communitys in BLUFFDALE, Utah, one of the schools within Jordan District, with 830 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 491 students per school, that is 69% above typical.

Mountain Point Elementary is one of 67 schools operated by Jordan District, a district that instructs 58,788 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Mountain Point Elementary reports that 73% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Mountain Point Elementary logs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Mountain Point Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Salt Lake County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mountain Point Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Salt Lake County) shows that median household earnings sit near $97,494, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Mountain Point Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hidden Valley Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mountain Point Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

Mountain Point Elementary operates from a residential location.

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