Pahvant School

Set in RICHFIELD, Utah, Pahvant School is a reasonably sized elementary school, part of Sevier District. It works with 520 students across grades 3 through 5.

Sevier District comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 4,658 students; Pahvant School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pahvant School reports that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 3% Native American.

Looking at school resources, Pahvant School reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. Roughly 55% of students at Pahvant School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sevier County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Pahvant School ranks in the top 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.9%; Pahvant School posts 53.6%, +20.7 points above that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Sevier County put the typical household earns roughly $74,884 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Sevier County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,658 students), of which Pahvant School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ashman School, around 0.5 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pahvant School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

Pahvant School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pahvant School's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 549 (now 520).

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