Parkside Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in OREM, Utah, Parkside Elementary caters to 588 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Alpine District.

Parkside Elementary is one of 89 schools operated by Alpine District, a district that teaches 86,645 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Parkside Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment; the rest consists of 31% White, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

Looking at school resources, Parkside Elementary reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Parkside Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 61% of students at Parkside Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Utah County's rate of about 22%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Parkside Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.9%, the actual is 31.0%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Utah County) records that the typical household earns roughly $100,671 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Utah County runs 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), of which Parkside Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Mountain View High, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Parkside Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Parkside Elementary at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 49.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.