Neil Armstrong Academy

Located at 5194 West Highbury Parkway, in WEST VALLEY, Utah, Neil Armstrong Academy is a reasonably sized elementary campus that educates 688 students (grades pre-K through 6), operated by Granite District. That puts it 40% larger than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 491 students.

Granite District runs 85 schools in total, collectively educating 59,404 students. Neil Armstrong Academy is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Neil Armstrong Academy logs that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 10% Pacific Islander, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.5:1. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Neil Armstrong Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.6%, the actual is 46.1%, a residual of +1.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Salt Lake County put median household income runs about $97,494, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Neil Armstrong Academy is one of 325 public schools in Salt Lake County (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students).

Monticello Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Neil Armstrong Academy comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.8%.

Neil Armstrong Academy operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 765 students in 2018 compared to 688 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 27% across the same window.

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