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Sand Ridge Jr High
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 Sand Ridge Jr High
Sand Ridge Jr High operates as a low-enrollment middle school in ROY, Utah, part of Weber District. Current enrollment sits at 695 students spanning grades 7 through 9.
Weber District comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 32,054 students; Sand Ridge Jr High is among them.
In terms of who attends, Sand Ridge Jr High logs that 66% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 25% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Sand Ridge Jr High has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.6:1. The state averages around 21.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sand Ridge Jr High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 25.1%, a residual of -13.7 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Weber County put the typical household earns roughly $90,005 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Sand Ridge Jr High is one.
Nearest neighbor: Roy High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sand Ridge Jr High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sand Ridge Jr High at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 31.9%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sand Ridge Jr High has contracted 21%, going from 883 students in 2018 to 695 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 72% to 66%.
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