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Enrollment
500
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 491
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SALT LAKE DISTRICT·NCES 490087000525
Whittier School
1600 S 300 E, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84115 · (801) 481-4846 · Salt Lake County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL500 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 72% of Utah public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Utah public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 21.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
287 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 33%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 22 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 11% smaller than its 6th grade class (64).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 47% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientEnglish Language Arts
44.7%
UT avg 41.4% . -3.3pp since 2023
Math
45.2%
UT avg 41.8% . +3.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 up about 3 points.
RISE / Utah Aspire+ results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.7% | 45.2% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 42.0% |
% Proficient + Highly Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: RISE / Utah Aspire+. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of UT schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
48.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.7%
based on UT schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 32% typical for Utah schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Utah's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Whittier School
Whittier School's state test result (48.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whittier School this school | 500 | 57.4% | 48.8% |
| American Preparatory Academy - The School for New Americans WEST VALLEY CITY | 639 | 59.5% | 35.5% |
| Washington School SALT LAKE CITY | 402 | 57.7% | 43.7% |
| Lincoln School SALT LAKE CITY | 483 | 36.2% | 24.0% |
| Olene Walker Elementary SALT LAKE CITY | 712 | 42.4% | 21.4% |
| Pioneer School WEST VALLEY CITY | 438 | 53.2% | 29.9% |
Matched among Utah elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Whittier School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Utah | In Salt Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.8% | #259 of 562 | #71 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.2% | #289 of 578 ▲ 55 | #71 of 180 ▲ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.7% | #266 of 578 ▼ 4 | #72 of 180 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 500 | #313 of 613 | #87 of 184 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.9:1 | #74 of 556 | #27 of 178 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.4% | #1 of 559 | #1 of 179 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.4% | #71 of 582 | #33 of 179 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.0% | #119 of 388 | #53 of 133 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
500
-22 (-4%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 577
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 500 | 28 | 17.9:1 | 57% (287) |
| 2023-24 | 477 | 22.9 | 20.8:1 | 61% (293) |
| 2022-23 | 499 | 25.9 | 19.3:1 | 57% (284) |
| 2020-21 | 522 | N/A | N/A | 50% (259) |
| 2017-18 | 658 | N/A | N/A | 60% (398) |
| 2015-16 | 718 | N/A | N/A | 66% (473) |
| 2010-11 | 711 | 29 | 24.5:1 | 70% (501) |
| 2000-01 | 503 | 24 | 21.0:1 | 63% (316) |
| 1990-91 | 577 | 23 | 25.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Whittier School.
About Whittier School
Whittier School is a medium-sized elementary school in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, administered by Salt Lake District. School enrollment was 500 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 6.
Salt Lake District has 39 schools and 20,086 students, and Whittier School is one of those schools.
Whittier School's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 39%. After that, the student body is 34% Hispanic, 10% Black, 10% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Among all residents of Salt Lake County, the White share is about 70%. By the diversity index, Whittier School comes in at 71%.
The school reported 28 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 17.9:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Utah average 21.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 57%. Among public schools in Salt Lake County, the average eligibility rate is 34%.
The allk12 Grade for Whittier School is B+. Compared with Utah public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 72% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Whittier School scores 17.0 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 48.8% actual versus 31.7% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of Utah schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Salt Lake County (population about 1,196,523), median household income is about $97,494, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 325 public schools operate in Salt Lake County, serving about 209,757 students.
Innovations Early College High School is the closest public school, about 0.2 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 4 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Whittier School is 3rd on average proficiency.
Federal data place Whittier School in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Whittier School had 522 students in 2020-21 and 500 in 2024-25, a 4% decrease.
Discussions about Whittier School may include school safety, transportation, and start times. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Salt Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,196,523
Census ACS
Median income
$97,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
325
209,757 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Salt Lake District
- West HighHigh · 2,503 students
- Highland HighHigh · 1,973 students
- East HighHigh · 1,764 students
- Glendale MiddleMiddle · 678 students
- Mountain View SchoolElementary · 629 students
- Clayton MiddleMiddle · 567 students
Other schools in SALT LAKE CITY
- West HighHigh · 2,503 students
- Brighton HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 2,186 students
- Olympus HighHigh · 2,151 students
- Highland HighHigh · 1,973 students
- East HighHigh · 1,764 students
Other Whittier schools
4 other US public schools in 2 states are named Whittier. Whittier School is the largest of the 5.
- Whittier SchoolWEST VALLEY CITY, UT · 492 students
- Whittier SchoolButte, MT · 383 students
- Whittier SchoolBozeman, MT · 262 students
- Whittier SchoolGreat Falls, MT · 187 students
Nearby schools
- Innovations Early College High School0.2 mi · 157
- Hawthorne School0.6 mi · 318
- Horizonte Instruction & Training Center0.7 mi · 259
- Liberty School0.7 mi · 473
- Utah Connections Academy0.8 mi · 1,052
- Salt Lake Arts Academy1.1 mi · 415
Frequently asked questions
About Whittier SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Whittier School?
Whittier School enrolls approximately 500 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Whittier School serve?
Whittier School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Whittier School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Whittier School is approximately 17.9:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Whittier School?
At Whittier School, the student body is approximately 39% White, 34% Hispanic, 10% Black, 10% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Whittier School public or private?
Whittier School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Salt Lake District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.