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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Venture Academy this year?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
802
Combined
STATE 687
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VENTURE ACADEMY·NCES 490013301216
Venture Academy
495 N 1500 W, MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE CITY, UT 84404 · (801) 393-3900 · Weber County
GRADES KG–12COMBINED21-SUBURBCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL802 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
42 FTE teachers
STATE 19.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
150 students
STATE 33%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientEnglish Language Arts
31.0%
UT avg 41.4% . -2.3pp since 2023
Math
23.9%
UT avg 41.8% . -4.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Source: RISE / Utah Aspire+. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of UT schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
28.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.7%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
802
-1 (0%) vs 2017
% White
76%
was 95%
% Hispanic
20%
was 2%
% Black
1%
was 0%
% Asian
1%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Venture Academy
Venture Academy operates as a mid-sized multi-level school in MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE CITY, Utah, part of Venture Academy. Current enrollment sits at 802 students spanning grades K through 12.
Venture Academy is a school of Venture Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
Looking at the student body, Venture Academy lists that 76% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 20% Hispanic.
Looking at school resources, Venture Academy logs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.9:1 average. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Weber County (around 35%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Venture Academy is in the bottom 10% of Utah public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.7%; Venture Academy posts 28.5%, -22.1 points below that line.
Across the wider county, Weber County reports that median household income runs about $90,005, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Weber County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 49,670 students), of which Venture Academy is one.
Pioneer School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Venture Academy at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 33.0%.
Venture Academy operates from a residential location. Venture 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 stayed largely flat: 803 students in 2018 compared to 802 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 95% to 76%.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Weber County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
269,648
Census ACS
Median income
$90,005
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
95
49,670 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Nearby schools
- Pioneer School0.3 mi · 394
- Malan's Peak Secondary1.8 mi · 35
- Weber Innovation High School1.9 mi · 369
- Weber Online K-61.9 mi · 52
- Two Rivers High1.9 mi · 175
- Horizon Academy1.9 mi · 74
Frequently asked questions
About Venture AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at Venture Academy?
Venture Academy enrolls approximately 802 students in grades KG-12.
Is Venture Academy an elementary, middle, or high school?
Venture Academy is a combined-grade school covering grades KG-12.
How many students per teacher at Venture Academy?
Approximately 18.9:1 students per teacher at Venture Academy.
How diverse is Venture Academy?
Venture Academy reports a student body of 76% White, 20% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Venture Academy?
Venture Academy is overseen by Venture Academy in Weber County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.