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Wellsville 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 52 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 Wellsville School
As an average-sized elementary campus in WELLSVILLE, Utah, Wellsville School educates 463 students from grades K through 6, operated by Cache District.
Cache District runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 20,286 students. Wellsville School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Wellsville School logs that nearly all students (91%) are White. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, Wellsville School logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.5:1. The state averages about 21.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cache County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Wellsville School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 55.3%, a residual of +6.5 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cache County put the typical household earns roughly $81,665 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cache County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,291 students), Wellsville School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is South Cache Middle School, roughly 3.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wellsville School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.2%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wellsville School has declined 14%, going from 540 students in 2018 to 463 in 2025.
On the community side, members of the Wellsville School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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