Nibley Park School

Nibley Park School is a primary school of mid-sized scale in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, part of Salt Lake District, caters to 483 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Salt Lake District comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 20,086 students; Nibley Park School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Nibley Park School shows that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 38% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Nibley Park School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

After controlling for student poverty, Nibley Park School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.0%; this one delivers 33.8%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Salt Lake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Nibley Park School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Olene Walker Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Nibley Park School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 19.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 16%: 417 students in 2018 compared to 483 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 28% to 38%.

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