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Washington School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 Washington School
As a reasonably sized K-5 school in WASHINGTON, Utah, Washington School teaches 468 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Washington District.
Washington District runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 37,102 students. Washington School is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Washington School reports that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 33% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Native American, 3% Pacific Islander. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.
On the income-and-resources front, Washington School logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Washington County's rate of about 29%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Washington School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.0%; this one delivers 34.9%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,632, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Washington County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,356 students), of which Washington School is one.
The closest other public school is Mountain View Montessori, roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Washington School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.8%.
Washington School operates from a residential location.
Looking at the recent track record. Washington School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 461 (now 468). The White share of enrollment edged down from 66% to 54% over that span.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Washington County at a glance
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