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Panorama School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Utah's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Panorama School
Panorama School operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in ST GEORGE, Utah, one of the schools within Washington District. Current enrollment sits at 447 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Panorama School is one of 54 schools operated by Washington District, a district that instructs 37,102 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Panorama School lists that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 31% Hispanic, 4% Native American, 4% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Panorama School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.5%, the actual is 34.7%, a residual of +4.3 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,632, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Panorama School is one of 65 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 41,356 students).
Nearest neighbor: Pine View Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Panorama School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.3%.
The school occupies a city-core site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 505 students in 2018 compared to 447 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 73% to 57% over that span.
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