Vernon School

Vernon School is a rural-scale elementary school in VERNON, Utah, operated by Tooele District. The school educates 20 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 96% leaner than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 491 students.

Tooele District comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 16,088 students; Vernon School is among them.

On demographics, Vernon School shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.8:1, putting Vernon School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Tooele County's rate of about 24%.

In the area at large, Tooele County reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,587 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Tooele County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,521 students), Vernon School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Dugway, roughly 19.0 miles away.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Vernon School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 20 (now 20). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 20% to 5% over that span.

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