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Noah Webster Academy
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Utah's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Noah Webster Academy
Set in OREM, Utah, Noah Webster Academy is a medium-sized elementary-level community, run under Noah Webster Academy. It enrolls 520 students across grades K through 6.
Noah Webster Academy is the operating authority for Noah Webster Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.
On demographics, Noah Webster Academy shows that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 38% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 38% of students at Noah Webster Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Utah County's rate of about 22%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Noah Webster Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 50.0%, a residual of +8.6 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Utah County) records that median household income runs about $100,671, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Utah County runs 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), of which Noah Webster Academy is one.
Centennial Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Noah Webster Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Noah Webster Academy at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 42.1%.
The school occupies an inner-city site. Noah Webster Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 559 students in 2018 compared to 520 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 30% to 38%.
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