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Westridge School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Westridge School
Westridge School is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in PROVO, Utah, one of the schools within Provo District, with 608 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 491 students each, so Westridge School sits 24% larger than that benchmark.
Provo District runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 13,897 students. Westridge School is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Westridge School records that 62% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 21.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 38% of students at Westridge School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Utah County runs at roughly 22%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Westridge School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.3%; this one delivers 54.6%.
Around the school, Utah County reports that median household earnings sit near $100,671, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Utah County's 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), Westridge School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Freedom Preparatory Academy, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westridge School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westridge School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 35.5%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westridge School has declined 21%, going from 769 students in 2018 to 608 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 62% across the same window.
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