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Silver Ridge Elementary
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Utah's top nor bottom 10%.
About Silver Ridge Elementary
Set in FARR WEST, Utah, Silver Ridge Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Weber District. It instructs 602 students across grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 23% larger than the state mean of about 491.
Weber District runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 32,054 students. Silver Ridge Elementary is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Silver Ridge Elementary shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Weber County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Silver Ridge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.8%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of -10.0 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Weber County) reports that median household income runs about $90,005, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Silver Ridge Elementary is one of 95 public schools in Weber County (combined enrollment of about 49,670 students).
Wahlquist Jr High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Silver Ridge Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Silver Ridge Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 51.1%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Weber County at a glance
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