South Mesa Elementary

Set in SAINT GEORGE, Utah, South Mesa Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school, one of the schools within Washington District. It caters to 595 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 21% larger than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 491 students.

Within Washington District, which oversees 54 schools and 37,102 students, South Mesa Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, South Mesa Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 9% of students at South Mesa Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, South Mesa Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.4%, the actual is 64.6%, a residual of +9.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Washington County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,632 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. South Mesa Elementary is one of 65 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 41,356 students).

George Washington Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), South Mesa Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.