Mountain Ridge Jr High

Mountain Ridge Jr High is a 6-8 campus of moderately sized scale in HIGHLAND, Utah, part of Alpine District, teacheing 958 students in grades 7 through 9.

Mountain Ridge Jr High is one of 89 schools operated by Alpine District, a district that enrolls 86,645 students overall.

Demographically, Mountain Ridge Jr High logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.7:1, putting Mountain Ridge Jr High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Utah County runs at roughly 22%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mountain Ridge Jr High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.1%.

Across the wider county, Utah County reports that median household earnings sit near $100,671, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Utah County's 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), Mountain Ridge Jr High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lone Peak High, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mountain Ridge Jr High at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 64.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Mountain Ridge Jr High's enrollment has contracted 27% since 2018, when it stood at 1,310 (now 958).

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