Sierra Bonita Elementary

Sierra Bonita Elementary is a moderately sized elementary school in SPANISH FORK, Utah, one of the schools within Nebo District. The school serves 568 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Within Nebo District, which oversees 49 schools and 43,696 students, Sierra Bonita Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Sierra Bonita Elementary reports that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.1:1. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Sierra Bonita Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.0%, the actual is 59.7%, a residual of +7.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Utah County shows the typical household earns roughly $100,671 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Utah County's 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), Sierra Bonita Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Maple Mountain High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sierra Bonita Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.3%.

Sierra Bonita Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 34%: 856 students in 2018 compared to 568 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 84% across the same window.

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