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Walden School of Liberal Arts
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% 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 Walden School of Liberal Arts
Walden School of Liberal Arts is one of the tight-knit all-grades campuss in PROVO, Utah, part of Walden School of Liberal Arts, with 386 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 44% leaner than the state mean of about 687.
Walden School of Liberal Arts is a school of Walden School of Liberal Arts, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
Looking at the student body, Walden School of Liberal Arts logs that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Utah County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Walden School of Liberal Arts shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. The state averages around 19.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Utah County (around 22%), the school's rate is north of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Walden School of Liberal Arts sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.1%; this one delivers 42.7%.
In the surrounding community, census data for Utah County shows median household earnings sit near $100,671, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Utah County runs 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), of which Walden School of Liberal Arts is one.
The closest other public school is Canyon Crest School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Walden School of Liberal Arts ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.9%.
Walden School of Liberal Arts operates from a metropolitan location. Walden School of Liberal Arts operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Trend over the last 7 years. Walden School of Liberal Arts's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 448 (now 386). White enrollment moved from 79% to 83% across the same window.
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