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Snow Canyon Middle
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Snow Canyon Middle
Snow Canyon Middle operates as a mid-sized combined-grade school in ST GEORGE, Utah, one of the schools within Washington District. Current enrollment sits at 796 students spanning grades pre-K through 9.
Within Washington District, which oversees 54 schools and 37,102 students, Snow Canyon Middle is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Snow Canyon Middle shows that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.9:1, putting Snow Canyon Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Snow Canyon Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.5%.
In the surrounding community, census data for Washington County shows median household earnings sit near $80,632, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Washington County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,356 students), of which Snow Canyon Middle is one.
Snow Canyon High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Snow Canyon Middle ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.6%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Over the past 7-year window. Snow Canyon Middle's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 888 (now 796). Over the same period, the White share declined from 72% to 67%.
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