Trailside Elementary

Trailside Elementary operates as a roomy K-5 school in VINEYARD, Utah, overseen by Alpine District. Current enrollment sits at 1,052 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 491 students each, so Trailside Elementary sits 114% bigger than that benchmark.

Alpine District runs 89 schools in total, collectively educating 86,645 students. Trailside Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Trailside Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 24% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Trailside Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Trailside Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Utah County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $100,671 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Trailside Elementary is one of 202 public schools in Utah County (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students).

Freedom Preparatory Academy - Vineyard is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Trailside Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

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