Northwest Middle

Northwest Middle is one of the cozy middle-grades schools in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, one of the schools within Salt Lake District, with 542 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 831 students per school, that is 35% below typical.

Salt Lake District runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 20,086 students. Northwest Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Northwest Middle shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 8% White, 6% Pacific Islander, 5% Black, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Northwest Middle shows 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.7:1, putting Northwest Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

With demographic context factored in, Northwest Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.2%, the actual is 15.7%, a residual of -1.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Salt Lake County) logs that 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 Northwest Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: North Star School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Northwest Middle at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 24.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 27%: 740 students in 2018 compared to 542 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 12% to 8% across the same window.

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