Vernal Middle

Located at 721 W 100 S, in VERNAL, Utah, Vernal Middle is a reasonably sized intermediate school that instructs 842 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Uintah District.

Vernal Middle is one of 13 schools operated by Uintah District, a district that educates 6,687 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Vernal Middle logs that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Uintah County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 21.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Vernal Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Uintah County indicate median household income runs about $73,746, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Uintah County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,403 students), Vernal Middle is one campus in the mix.

Uintah Middle School 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. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Vernal Middle at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 43.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 838 students in 2018 compared to 842 in 2025.

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