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Westside School
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Westside School
As a mid-sized elementary campus in SPRINGVILLE, Utah, Westside School teaches 640 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of Nebo District. Enrollment runs roughly 30% above the state mean of about 491.
Nebo District runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 43,696 students. Westside School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Westside School reports that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Utah County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Westside School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at Westside School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Utah County's rate of about 22%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Westside School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of -1.4 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Utah County indicate the typical household earns roughly $100,671 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Utah County's 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), Westside School is one campus in the mix.
Reagan Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westside School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Westside School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 43.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 743 students in 2018 compared to 640 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 58% across the same window.
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