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Three Mile Creek School
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Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Three Mile Creek School
Set in PERRY, Utah, Three Mile Creek School is a medium-sized elementary-level community, overseen by Box Elder District. It hosts 531 students across grades 2 through 5.
Three Mile Creek School is one of 22 schools operated by Box Elder District, a district that hosts 12,554 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Three Mile Creek School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Box Elder County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Three Mile Creek School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 56.0%, a residual of +5.8 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Box Elder County put the typical household earns roughly $84,550 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Three Mile Creek School is one of 24 public schools in Box Elder County (combined enrollment of about 12,997 students).
Nearest neighbor: Promontory School of Expeditionary Learning, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Three Mile Creek School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Three Mile Creek School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 39.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Three Mile Creek School has showed little movement, going from 533 students in 2018 to 531 in 2025.
On the community side, members of the Three Mile Creek School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Box Elder County at a glance
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