Neola School

Neola School is a micro-enrollment elementary school in NEOLA, Utah, part of Duchesne District. The school hosts 137 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 72% smaller than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 491 students.

Duchesne District comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 5,309 students; Neola School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Neola School logs that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 4% Native American.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Neola School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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, Neola School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 47.0%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Duchesne County put the typical household earns roughly $78,445 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Duchesne County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,270 students), Neola School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kings Peak School, around 8.7 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Neola School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.7%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Neola School's enrollment has decreased 25% since 2018, when it stood at 182 (now 137). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 92% to 81%.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.