Spring Canyon Middle

Spring Canyon Middle is a middle-grades school of reasonably sized scale in SPRINGVILLE, Utah, part of Nebo District, serveing 1,038 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 25% above the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 831 students.

Across the 49 schools in Nebo District (43,696 students total), Spring Canyon Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Spring Canyon Middle lists that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment; the rest looks like 23% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Utah County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.7:1. The state averages about 21.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Spring Canyon Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.9%, the actual is 46.6%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the area at large, Utah County reports that the typical household earns roughly $100,671 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Utah County runs 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), of which Spring Canyon Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Meadow Brook School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Spring Canyon Middle. On composite proficiency, Spring Canyon Middle comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.8%.

Spring Canyon Middle operates from an outer-ring location.

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