Olympus Jr High

Olympus Jr High is one of the average-sized intermediate schools in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, run under Granite District, with 807 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 9.

Olympus Jr High is one of 85 schools operated by Granite District, a district that serves 59,404 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Olympus Jr High lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest reads as 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, Olympus Jr High shows 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.2:1. The state averages around 21.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Olympus Jr High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.7%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Salt Lake County put median household income runs about $97,494, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Olympus Jr High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Crestview School, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Olympus Jr High comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 58.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Olympus Jr High's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 919 (now 807).

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