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Enrollment
448
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 491
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRANITE DISTRICT·NCES 490036000251
Philo T. Farnsworth School
3751 S 4225 W, WEST VALLEY CITY, UT 84120 · (385) 646-4822 · Salt Lake County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL448 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 6% of Utah public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Utah public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.9:1 · STATE 21.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
220 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 33%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 39 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 65 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 22% smaller than its 6th grade class (65).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientEnglish Language Arts
19.2%
UT avg 41.4% . +0.9pp since 2023
Math
24.6%
UT avg 41.8% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.2% | 24.6% |
| 2023-24 | 18.3% | 23.6% |
% Proficient + Highly Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: RISE / Utah Aspire+. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.8%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Philo T. Farnsworth School
Philo T. Farnsworth School's state test result (23.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philo T. Farnsworth School this school | 448 | 49.1% | 23.4% |
| David Gourley School KEARNS | 423 | 47.3% | 35.2% |
| Jackling School WEST VALLEY CITY | 415 | 45.8% | 18.3% |
| Beehive School KEARNS | 489 | 45.2% | 23.3% |
| Academy Park School WEST VALLEY CITY | 358 | 48.3% | 18.8% |
| South Kearns School KEARNS | 536 | 46.8% | 27.7% |
Matched among Utah elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Philo T. Farnsworth School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.4% | #515 of 562 | #138 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.6% | #489 of 578 ▲ 12 | #128 of 180 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.2% | #538 of 578 ▲ 10 | #147 of 180 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 448 | #392 of 613 | #117 of 184 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.9:1 | #362 of 556 | #126 of 178 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.9% | #29 of 559 | #28 of 179 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.1% | #134 of 582 | #46 of 179 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.6% | #105 of 388 | #47 of 133 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
448
-120 (-21%) vs 2020
-55% since 1990-91, when it was 987
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 448 | 20.5 | 21.9:1 | 49% (220) |
| 2023-24 | 468 | 27.3 | 17.2:1 | 64% (300) |
| 2022-23 | 546 | 25 | 21.8:1 | 73% (397) |
| 2020-21 | 568 | N/A | N/A | 70% (398) |
| 2017-18 | 602 | N/A | N/A | 72% (434) |
| 2015-16 | 618 | N/A | N/A | 75% (465) |
| 2010-11 | 724 | 30 | 24.1:1 | 70% (509) |
| 2000-01 | 796 | 35 | 22.7:1 | 46% (369) |
| 1990-91 | 987 | 32 | 30.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Philo T. Farnsworth School.
About Philo T. Farnsworth School
Philo T. Farnsworth School is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah. It offers pre-K through 6 and has 448 students enrolled.
The district for Philo T. Farnsworth School is Granite District, with 85 schools and 59,404 students.
Hispanic students are 52% of those enrolled at Philo T. Farnsworth School. Next come 30% White, 6% Pacific Islander, 5% Black, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 21% Hispanic among all Salt Lake County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 63%.
Its staff includes 20.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 21.9 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 21.8:1 average for elementary schools in Utah. Philo T. Farnsworth School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 49%. Compared with the 34% average for public schools in Salt Lake County, the school's rate is higher.
Among Utah public elementary schools, Philo T. Farnsworth School outscored 6%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Philo T. Farnsworth School is 12.3 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (23.4% versus 35.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Utah.
For Salt Lake County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $97,494 a year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting Philo T. Farnsworth School, Salt Lake County has 325 public schools.
Jackling School is about 0.6 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Philo T. Farnsworth School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Philo T. Farnsworth School places 5th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
The NCES locale for Philo T. Farnsworth School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased 21% over 4 years, reaching 448 in 2024-25.
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Salt Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,196,523
Census ACS
Median income
$97,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
325
209,757 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Granite District
- Granger HighHigh · 3,267 students
- Cyprus HighHigh · 2,762 students
- Taylorsville HighHigh · 2,685 students
- Hunter HighHigh · 2,480 students
- Kearns HighHigh · 2,313 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 2,186 students
Other schools in WEST VALLEY CITY
- Granger HighHigh · 3,267 students
- Hunter HighHigh · 2,480 students
- American Preparatory Academy - Accelerated SchoolCombined · 1,556 students
- Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12Combined · 777 students
- John F. Kennedy Jr HighMiddle · 772 students
- West Valley SchoolElementary · 764 students
Nearby schools
- Jackling School0.6 mi · 415
- Granger High0.7 mi · 3,267
- Pioneer School1.0 mi · 438
- Monroe School1.0 mi · 512
- West Lake Jr High1.1 mi · 724
- Esperanza School1.1 mi · 575
Frequently asked questions
About Philo T. Farnsworth SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Philo T. Farnsworth School?
Philo T. Farnsworth School enrolls approximately 448 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Philo T. Farnsworth School serve?
Philo T. Farnsworth School serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Philo T. Farnsworth School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Philo T. Farnsworth School is approximately 21.9:1 (21 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Philo T. Farnsworth School?
Student demographics at Philo T. Farnsworth School are roughly 30% White, 52% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Philo T. Farnsworth School?
Philo T. Farnsworth School is overseen by Granite District in Salt Lake County.
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