Pinnacle Canyon Academy

Set in Price, Utah, Pinnacle Canyon Academy is a modestly sized all-grades campus, one of the schools within Pinnacle Canyon Academy. It serves 360 students across grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 48% leaner than the state mean of about 687.

Pinnacle Canyon Academy is the operating authority for Pinnacle Canyon Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Demographically, Pinnacle Canyon Academy records that White students make up the majority at 71%; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic. By comparison, Carbon County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. The state averages around 19.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 73% of students at Pinnacle Canyon Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Carbon County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pinnacle Canyon Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.2%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Carbon County indicate median household earnings sit near $58,377, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Carbon County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,694 students), of which Pinnacle Canyon Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Carbon High, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pinnacle Canyon Academy comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

Pinnacle Canyon Academy operates from a town-based location. Pinnacle Canyon Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pinnacle Canyon Academy's enrollment has decreased 24% since 2018, when it stood at 476 (now 360). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 17% to 25%.

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