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Vista School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Utah's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Vista School
Vista School is a heavily attended all-grades campus in IVINS, Utah, operated by Vista School. The school educates 1,114 students in grades K through 9. That puts it 62% bigger than the typical public school in Utah, which averages around 687 students.
Vista School is a school of Vista School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
On demographics, Vista School shows that 76% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.9:1, putting Vista School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vista School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.1%; this one delivers 52.2%.
Across the wider county, Washington County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,632, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washington County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,356 students), Vista School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Red Mountain School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Vista School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.
Vista School operates from a residential location. As a public charter, Vista School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 23%: 908 students in 2018 compared to 1,114 in 2025.
On the community side, members of the Vista School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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