Utah Military Academy

Set in RIVERDALE, Utah, Utah Military Academy is an intimate 9-12 campus, one of the schools within Utah Military Academy. It serves 595 students across grades 7 through 12. That puts it 39% leaner than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 980 students.

Within Utah Military Academy, which oversees 2 schools and 952 students, Utah Military Academy is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Utah Military Academy records that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 32% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Weber County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Utah Military Academy records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.1:1, putting Utah Military Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Weber County's rate of about 35%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Utah Military Academy is in the bottom 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.1%; Utah Military Academy posts 24.0%, -23.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Weber County put median household earnings sit near $90,005, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Weber County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 49,670 students), Utah Military Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Good Foundations Academy, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Utah Military Academy. On composite proficiency, Utah Military Academy comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site. Utah Military Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 15%: 519 students in 2018 compared to 595 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 54% across the same window.

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