English Language Arts
8.3%
State avg 41.4%
District avg 22.7%
County avg 22.7%
+2.2pp since 2023-24
District avg 22.7%
County avg 22.7%
+2.2pp since 2023-24
Test scores
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RISE / Utah Aspire+, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient + Highly Proficient.Mathematics
N/A
State avg 41.8%
District avg 26.6%
County avg 26.6%
District avg 26.6%
County avg 26.6%
Science
9.3%
State avg 48.1%
District avg 27.5%
County avg 27.5%
+1.4pp since 2023-24
District avg 27.5%
County avg 27.5%
+1.4pp since 2023-24
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 8 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 48. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while science scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
9.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
12.3%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 9% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 12% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
2-year history
All grades, all students. Whitehorse Utah avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 8.3% | 22.7% | 22.7% | 41.4% |
| SY 2023-24 | 6.1% | 27.8% | 27.8% | 43.3% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | N/A | 26.6% | 26.6% | 41.8% |
| SY 2023-24 | 6.2% | 26.2% | 26.2% | 42.4% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 9.3% | 27.5% | 27.5% | 48.1% |
| SY 2023-24 | 7.9% | 32.3% | 32.3% | 48.5% |
How to read these scores
What is RISE / Utah Aspire+?
RISE / Utah Aspire+ is the statewide standardized test administered by Utah public schools.
What does "% Proficient + Highly Proficient" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 8.3% mean for English Language Arts at Whitehorse High?
It means about 8.3 percent of students tested at Whitehorse High performed at grade level or above on the RISE / Utah Aspire+ English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Utah that year was 41.4%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Utah, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Utah State Board of Education, RISE (grades 3-8) and Utah Aspire Plus (grades 9-10). School-level from the USBE Proficiency Levels xlsx. NCES join via school name (no school code in source). Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient + Highly Proficient" rate (top 2 of 4 RISE/Aspire levels: Below / Approaching / Proficient / Highly Proficient).
How often is it updated?
RISE / Utah Aspire+ is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.