North Davis Preparatory Academy

Set in LAYTON, Utah, North Davis Preparatory Academy is a medium-sized multi-level school, part of North Davis Preparatory Academy. It hosts 966 students across grades K through 9. That puts it 41% larger than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 687 students.

North Davis Preparatory Academy is a school of North Davis Preparatory Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, North Davis Preparatory Academy reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 47% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Davis County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 28% of students at North Davis Preparatory Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Davis County's rate of about 19%.

After controlling for student poverty, North Davis Preparatory Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.2%, the actual is 32.3%, a residual of -13.8 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Davis County put median household income runs about $110,884, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. North Davis Preparatory Academy is one of 118 public schools in Davis County (combined enrollment of about 81,110 students).

Ellison Park School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Davis Preparatory Academy ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. North Davis Preparatory Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. North Davis Preparatory Academy's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,021 (now 966). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 33% to 47%.

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