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Spring Creek School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 Spring Creek School
Spring Creek School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in PROVO, Utah, overseen by Provo District, hosts 452 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.
Across the 21 schools in Provo District (13,897 students total), Spring Creek School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Spring Creek School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 35% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Spring Creek School shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Utah County (around 22%), the school's rate is north of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Spring Creek School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.9%, the actual is 32.7%, a residual of +2.7 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Utah County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $100,671 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Spring Creek School is one of 202 public schools in Utah County (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students).
The closest other public school is Slate Mountain School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 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), Spring Creek School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.3%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 452 students in 2018 compared to 452 in 2025.
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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