Silver Crest School

Located at 12937 S ELEMENTARY DR, in HERRIMAN, Utah, Silver Crest School is a big elementary school that teaches 879 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Jordan District. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 491 students each, so Silver Crest School sits 79% above that benchmark.

Within Jordan District, which oversees 67 schools and 58,788 students, Silver Crest School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Silver Crest School logs that White students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander, 2% Asian.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Silver Crest School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Silver Crest School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Silver Crest School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 43.0%, a residual of -2.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Salt Lake County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Salt Lake County's 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), Silver Crest School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bastian School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Silver Crest School. On composite proficiency, Silver Crest School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Silver Crest School has shrank 6%, going from 940 students in 2018 to 879 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 83% to 66%.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.