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Sunrise Ridge Intermediate
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Sunrise Ridge Intermediate
Set in SAINT GEORGE, Utah, Sunrise Ridge Intermediate is a mid-sized middle-grades school, overseen by Washington District. It caters to 802 students across grades 6 through 7.
Washington District runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 37,102 students. Sunrise Ridge Intermediate is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Sunrise Ridge Intermediate logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest comes out to 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, Sunrise Ridge Intermediate logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.7:1 average. About 17% 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 south of Washington County's rate of about 29%.
With demographic context factored in, Sunrise Ridge Intermediate tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.8%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Washington County shows median household earnings sit near $80,632, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Washington County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,356 students), of which Sunrise Ridge Intermediate is one.
Nearest neighbor: Little Valley School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunrise Ridge Intermediate. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sunrise Ridge Intermediate ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 61.2%.
The school occupies an urban site.
Looking at the recent track record. Sunrise Ridge Intermediate's enrollment has ticked down 27% since 2018, when it stood at 1,095 (now 802). The White share of enrollment shrank from 90% to 85% over that span.
On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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