Valley Academy

Set in HURRICANE, Utah, Valley Academy is a moderately sized K-12 campus, run under Valley Academy. It teaches 642 students across grades K through 9.

Valley Academy sits inside Valley Academy, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, Valley Academy shows that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 25% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.9:1 average. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Washington County (around 29%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Valley Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Washington County) records that median household earnings sit near $80,632, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Washington County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,356 students), of which Valley Academy is one.

Hurricane School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Valley Academy ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area. Valley Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Valley Academy's enrollment has expanded 83% since 2018, when it stood at 350 (now 642). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 81% to 70%.

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