Polk School

Polk School, an average-sized elementary school in OGDEN, Utah, one of the schools within Ogden City District, teaches 541 students, covering grades K through 6.

Within Ogden City District, which oversees 18 schools and 10,244 students, Polk School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Polk School logs that 61% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 31% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Polk School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 43% of students at Polk School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Polk School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.7%; this one delivers 43.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Weber County shows median household income runs about $90,005, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Weber County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 49,670 students), of which Polk School is one.

Ogden High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Polk School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 76%: 308 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.