Shoreline Junior High

Shoreline Junior High is a 6-8 campus of average-sized scale in LAYTON, Utah, part of Davis District, hosting 1,225 students in grades 7 through 9. Compared to the state average of about 831 students per school, that is 47% larger than typical.

Within Davis District, which oversees 95 schools and 71,703 students, Shoreline Junior High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Shoreline Junior High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school reports having 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 28.8:1. The state averages around 21.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 7% of students at Shoreline Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Davis County's rate of about 19%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Shoreline Junior High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Davis County indicate median household earnings sit near $110,884, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Davis County runs 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,110 students), of which Shoreline Junior High is one.

The closest other public school is Heritage School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Shoreline Junior High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 50.0%.

Shoreline Junior High operates from a residential location.

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