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No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in Utah's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science
No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science is one of the close-knit four-year high schools in LAYTON, Utah, operated by No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science, with 667 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 32% smaller than the state mean of about 980.
No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science is one of 2 schools operated by No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science, a district that educates 1,126 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science records that White students make up the majority at 72%; the rest consists of 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. The state averages about 21.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 4% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Davis County runs at roughly 19%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 58.0%; this one delivers 75.5%, a residual of +17.5 points.
Zooming out to the county, Davis County reports that median household income runs about $110,884, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Davis County runs 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,110 students), of which No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science is one.
Davis Connect 7-12 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 31.5%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting. As a public charter, No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at No. UT. Acad. for Math Engineering & Science has contracted 12%, going from 754 students in 2018 to 667 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 78% to 72% over that span.
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