Ranches Academy

Ranches Academy, a close-knit primary school in EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah, one of the schools within Ranches Academy, teaches 360 students, covering grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 491 students per school, that is 27% smaller than typical.

Operationally, Ranches Academy answers to Ranches Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, Ranches Academy lists that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Utah County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.0:1. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ranches Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.6%, the actual is 61.0%, a residual of +8.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Utah County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $100,671 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Utah County's 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), Ranches Academy is one campus in the mix.

Hidden Hollow School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ranches Academy. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ranches Academy ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. Ranches Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Ranches Academy's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 364 (now 360). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 87% to 79%.

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