Santa Clara School

Santa Clara School is a primary school of average-sized scale in SANTA CLARA, Utah, part of Washington District, serveing 450 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 54 schools in Washington District (37,102 students total), Santa Clara School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Santa Clara School shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Washington County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Santa Clara School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 30% of students at Santa Clara School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Santa Clara School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 53.7%, a residual of +8.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,632 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Washington County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,356 students), of which Santa Clara School is one.

Snow Canyon High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Santa Clara School. On composite proficiency, Santa Clara School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Santa Clara School's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 493 (now 450). Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 13% across the same window.

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