Mountain Sunrise Academy

Mountain Sunrise Academy operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah, run under Mountain Sunrise Academy. Current enrollment sits at 493 students spanning grades K through 8.

Operationally, Mountain Sunrise Academy answers to Mountain Sunrise Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Mountain Sunrise Academy logs that White students make up the majority at 79%. Beyond that, the school reports 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. Compared to Utah County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mountain Sunrise Academy has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Mountain Sunrise Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 9% of students at Mountain Sunrise Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Utah County's rate of about 22%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mountain Sunrise Academy falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 55.5%; this one comes in at 25.2%, -30.3 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Utah County indicate median household income runs about $100,671, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Sunrise Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Dry Creek School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mountain Sunrise Academy ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting. Mountain Sunrise Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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