Thomas Edison - South

Thomas Edison - South, a moderately sized elementary-level community in NIBLEY, Utah, one of the schools within Thomas Edison, instructs 699 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 42% bigger than the state mean of about 491.

Thomas Edison - South is one of 2 schools operated by Thomas Edison, a district that works with 1,189 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Thomas Edison - South reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). The remainder breaks down as 17% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Thomas Edison - South records 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Thomas Edison - South tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 26% of students at Thomas Edison - South qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Thomas Edison - South 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 47.1%; Thomas Edison - South posts 67.1%, +19.9 points above that line.

Across the wider county, Cache County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,665 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Thomas Edison - South is one of 44 public schools in Cache County (combined enrollment of about 28,291 students).

Nibley School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thomas Edison - South. On composite proficiency, Thomas Edison - South comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 57.3%.

Thomas Edison - South operates from a commuter-belt location. As a public charter, Thomas Edison - South runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 761 students in 2018 compared to 699 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.