Spectrum Academy - Pleasant Grove

Spectrum Academy - Pleasant Grove is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-12 campuss in PLEASANT GROVE, Utah, one of the schools within Spectrum Academy, with 696 students on its rolls from grades K through 12.

Spectrum Academy comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,525 students; Spectrum Academy - Pleasant Grove is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Spectrum Academy - Pleasant Grove records that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.9:1 average. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Spectrum Academy - Pleasant Grove is in the bottom 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.5%; Spectrum Academy - Pleasant Grove posts 29.5%, -19.0 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Utah County put the typical household earns roughly $100,671 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Utah County's 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), Spectrum Academy - Pleasant Grove is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: John Hancock Charter School, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Spectrum Academy - Pleasant Grove at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 45.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. Spectrum Academy - Pleasant Grove is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Spectrum Academy - Pleasant Grove's enrollment has grew 27% since 2018, when it stood at 550 (now 696). The White share of enrollment decreased from 87% to 80% over that span.

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