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River Heights School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 46% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Utah's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About River Heights School
River Heights School operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in LOGAN, Utah, operated by Cache District. Current enrollment sits at 608 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 491 students each, so River Heights School sits 24% bigger than that benchmark.
Cache District comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 20,286 students; River Heights School is among them.
On the student-mix side, River Heights School logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, On paper, River Heights School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, River Heights School sits in the top 10% of Utah schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 45.7%; actual is 62.8%, +17.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the surrounding community, census data for Cache County shows the typical household earns roughly $81,665 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. River Heights School is one of 44 public schools in Cache County (combined enrollment of about 28,291 students).
The closest other public school is The Center for Creativity Innovation and Discovery, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts River Heights School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 48.3%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Over the past 7-year window. River Heights School's enrollment has increased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 525 (now 608). White enrollment moved from 90% to 84% across the same window.
On allk12, members of the River Heights School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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