Summit School

Summit School is an elementary-level community of moderately sized scale in SMITHFIELD, Utah, run under Cache District, caters to 705 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 44% bigger than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 491 students.

Within Cache District, which oversees 26 schools and 20,286 students, Summit School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Summit School records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Cache County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Cache County's rate of about 31%.

With demographic context factored in, Summit School ranks in the top 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 39.1%; Summit School posts 60.1%, +21.0 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cache County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $81,665 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Cache County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,291 students), Summit School is one campus in the mix.

Sunrise School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Summit School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 58.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Summit School's enrollment has ticked up 4% since 2018, when it stood at 681 (now 705).

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