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Young Intermediate
Test scores
RISE / Utah Aspire+ 2024-25 . % Proficient + Highly ProficientWhat this means: On the RISE / Utah Aspire+, Utah's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Utah schools, those numbers are about 41 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 Young Intermediate
Young Intermediate, a medium-sized junior high in BRIGHAM CITY, Utah, operated by Box Elder District, educates 1,003 students, covering grades 6 through 7. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 831 students each, so Young Intermediate sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.
Across the 22 schools in Box Elder District (12,554 students total), Young Intermediate accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Young Intermediate records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 14% Hispanic.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.7:1 average. Roughly 33% of students at Young Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, Young Intermediate tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.6%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Box Elder County indicate median household earnings sit near $84,550, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Box Elder County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,997 students), Young Intermediate is one campus in the mix.
Lake View School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Young Intermediate at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Young Intermediate has changed only slightly, going from 1,026 students in 2018 to 1,003 in 2025.
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Box Elder County at a glance
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