Saratoga Shores School

Saratoga Shores School operates as a sizable primary school in SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah, run under Alpine District. Current enrollment sits at 777 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 58% bigger than the state mean of about 491.

Alpine District comprises 89 schools with combined enrollment of 86,645 students; Saratoga Shores School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Saratoga Shores School shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Utah County (around 22%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Saratoga Shores School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Utah County shows median household earnings sit near $100,671, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Utah County's 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), Saratoga Shores School is one campus in the mix.

Lake Mountain Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Saratoga Shores School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Saratoga Shores School's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 876 (now 777).

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