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Roy School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Utah's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Roy School
Set in ROY, Utah, Roy School is a reasonably sized K-5 school, run under Weber District. It hosts 423 students across grades pre-K through 6.
Weber District runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 32,054 students. Roy School is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Roy School records that White students make up the majority at 60%. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Weber County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Roy School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.3:1. The state averages about 21.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Weber County (around 35%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Roy School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.4%; this one delivers 30.3%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Weber County put median household earnings sit near $90,005, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Weber County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 49,670 students), of which Roy School is one.
Municipal School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Roy School. On composite proficiency, Roy School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 32.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Roy School's enrollment has contracted 19% since 2018, when it stood at 522 (now 423). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 66% to 60%.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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