North Star Academy

As a cozy combined-grade school in Bluffdale, Utah, North Star Academy teaches 522 students from grades K through 9, part of North Star Academy. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 687 students each, so North Star Academy sits 24% below that benchmark.

North Star Academy is the operating authority for North Star Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, North Star Academy reports that 70% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. The state averages around 19.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 7% of students at North Star Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Salt Lake County (around 34%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, North Star Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.5%, the actual is 63.9%, a residual of +7.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Salt Lake County indicate median household income runs about $97,494, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which North Star Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bluffdale School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Star Academy ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. North Star Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. North Star Academy's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 523 (now 522). The White share of enrollment decreased from 91% to 70% over that span.

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