Sky View High

As a roomy senior high in SMITHFIELD, Utah, Sky View High hosts 1,600 students from grades 8 through 12, operated by Cache District. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 980 students each, so Sky View High sits 63% above that benchmark.

Across the 26 schools in Cache District (20,286 students total), Sky View High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Sky View High shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 8% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Sky View High has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.0:1. The state averages around 21.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Sky View High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 47.7%, a residual of +0.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Cache County shows the typical household earns roughly $81,665 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cache County runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,291 students), of which Sky View High is one.

The closest other public school is Sunrise School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sky View High comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 60.4%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Sky View High's enrollment has ticked up 21% since 2018, when it stood at 1,320 (now 1,600).

In the discussion threads here, members of the Sky View High community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.