Wellington School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Wellington School
Set in WELLINGTON, Utah, Wellington School is a cozy primary school, one of the schools within Carbon District. It teaches 264 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 491 students per school, that is 46% leaner than typical.
Across the 9 schools in Carbon District (3,334 students total), Wellington School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Wellington School records that nearly all students (83%) are White. The remainder consists of 13% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, Wellington School lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. An estimated 52% 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, Wellington School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.2%, the actual is 42.2%, a residual of +7.9 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Carbon County indicate median household income runs about $58,377, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Carbon County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,694 students), Wellington School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Pinnacle Canyon Academy, roughly 5.1 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wellington School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.4%.
Wellington School operates from an outlying location.
Looking at the recent track record. Wellington School's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 277 (now 264). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 89% to 83%.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Wellington School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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