Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12

Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12, a mid-tier all-grades campus in WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, operated by Wallace Stegner Academy, caters to 777 students, covering grades K through 12.

Within Wallace Stegner Academy, which oversees 3 schools and 2,162 students, Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12 is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12 shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 24% White, 4% Pacific Islander, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12 shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.9:1 average. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

After controlling for student poverty, Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.4%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of +7.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Salt Lake County put the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12 is one.

Hunter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12 at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 24.6%.

Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12 operates from a suburban location. Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12 is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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