RISE / Utah Aspire+, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient + Highly Proficient.English Language Arts
66.6%
State avg 41.4%
District avg 27.1%
County avg 33.9%
+6.9pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
67.7%
State avg 41.8%
District avg 25.1%
County avg 33.4%
+9.6pp since 2023-24
Science
74.4%
State avg 48.1%
District avg 29.5%
County avg 39.0%
+8.8pp since 2023-24
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 68 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 74 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41, 42, and 48. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points and science scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of UT schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.7%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% 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 18 points, placing it in Utah's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual.
How this is calculated →What is RISE / Utah Aspire+?
RISE / Utah Aspire+ is the statewide standardized test administered by Utah public schools.
What does "% Proficient + Highly Proficient" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 66.6% mean for English Language Arts at Shadow Valley School?
It means about 66.6 percent of students tested at Shadow Valley School performed at grade level or above on the RISE / Utah Aspire+ English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Utah that year was 41.4%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Utah, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Utah State Board of Education, RISE (grades 3-8) and Utah Aspire Plus (grades 9-10). School-level from the USBE Proficiency Levels xlsx. NCES join via school name (no school code in source). Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient + Highly Proficient" rate (top 2 of 4 RISE/Aspire levels: Below / Approaching / Proficient / Highly Proficient).
How often is it updated?
RISE / Utah Aspire+ is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.
