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Summit Academy - Bluffdale
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 Summit Academy - Bluffdale
Located at 1940 W. 14400 S., in BLUFFDALE, Utah, Summit Academy - Bluffdale is a reasonably sized elementary-level community that works with 537 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by Summit Academy.
Within Summit Academy, which oversees 4 schools and 2,567 students, Summit Academy - Bluffdale is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Summit Academy - Bluffdale logs that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 18% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Salt Lake County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Summit Academy - Bluffdale has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.6:1. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.
After controlling for student poverty, Summit Academy - Bluffdale sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 52.4%.
In the surrounding community, Salt Lake County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,494, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Summit Academy - Bluffdale is one.
Bluffdale School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Summit Academy - Bluffdale. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Summit Academy - Bluffdale at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 51.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area. Summit Academy - Bluffdale is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Summit Academy - Bluffdale has stayed largely flat, going from 547 students in 2018 to 537 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 88% to 74%.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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