Springside School

Springside School is one of the substantial elementary-level communitys in SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah, one of the schools within Alpine District, with 827 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 491 students per school, that is 68% larger than typical.

Springside School is one of 89 schools operated by Alpine District, a district that works with 86,645 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Springside School records that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Utah County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Springside School higher than the state norm the norm. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Utah County's rate of about 22%.

With demographic context factored in, Springside School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 54.5%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the surrounding community, Utah County reports that median household income runs about $100,671, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Utah County's 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), Springside School is one campus in the mix.

Lake Mountain Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Springside School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Springside School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 49.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 22%: 1,056 students in 2018 compared to 827 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 87% to 78%.

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