RISE / Utah Aspire+, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient + Highly Proficient.English Language Arts
40.9%
State avg 41.4%
District avg 40.9%
County avg 39.0%
+1.6pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
35.4%
State avg 41.8%
District avg 35.4%
County avg 38.8%
+3.8pp since 2023-24
Science
48.8%
State avg 48.1%
District avg 48.8%
County avg 45.5%
+1.0pp since 2023-24
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 35 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 49 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41, 42, and 48. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points and science scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of UT schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.7%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 52% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual.
How this is calculated →What is RISE / Utah Aspire+?
RISE / Utah Aspire+ is the statewide standardized test administered by Utah public schools.
What does "% Proficient + Highly Proficient" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 40.9% mean for English Language Arts at Mountain West Montessori Academy?
It means about 40.9 percent of students tested at Mountain West Montessori Academy performed at grade level or above on the RISE / Utah Aspire+ English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Utah that year was 41.4%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Utah, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Utah State Board of Education, RISE (grades 3-8) and Utah Aspire Plus (grades 9-10). School-level from the USBE Proficiency Levels xlsx. NCES join via school name (no school code in source). Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient + Highly Proficient" rate (top 2 of 4 RISE/Aspire levels: Below / Approaching / Proficient / Highly Proficient).
How often is it updated?
RISE / Utah Aspire+ is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.
