Red Cliff School

Red Cliff School is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in NEPHI, Utah, operated by Juab District. The school caters to 599 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 22% larger than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 491 students.

Red Cliff School is one of 5 schools operated by Juab District, a district that teaches 2,758 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Red Cliff School records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 7% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Juab County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Red Cliff School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 29% of students at Red Cliff School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Red Cliff School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.9%, the actual is 50.4%, a residual of +4.5 points.

In the broader community, census data for Juab County shows the typical household earns roughly $101,786 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Red Cliff School is one of 11 public schools in Juab County (combined enrollment of about 3,034 students).

Nearest neighbor: Nebo View School, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Red Cliff School. On composite proficiency, Red Cliff School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Red Cliff School's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 638 (now 599).

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