The top reported proficiency rate is 73% in Math. The lowest is 62% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Minersville School
Minersville School serves grades six through eight in the Beaver District, and it is the only middle school in a small, rural town that sits in a valley between mountain ranges in southwestern Utah. The school building is integrated into the town’s compact center, near Minersville Park, the library, and the Beaver County Fairgrounds, rather than set apart on a separate campus. That arrangement suits a place where daily life is local. The town’s economy is dominated by transportation and warehousing, with a concentration of workers in that sector that is unusually high for a community of this size. Small businesses like Todd’s Market and Papa Don’s Chevron anchor the main routes. The school is part of a district whose online materials do not signal any recent major changes in programming or boundaries, so a parent moving here should expect stability rather than upheaval in the district’s approach.
The student body is small, and the racial composition is predominantly white, with a notable Hispanic segment. About half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is a substantial share and reflects the economic mix of a rural town where middle-income households are common but not universal. State testing data is available for math, English language arts, and science from the state’s RISE assessments. In math, a strong majority of students scored at or above the proficient level. In English language arts, the share was also high though slightly below the math result. In science, a solid majority met the proficiency bar, though the rate was the lowest of the three subjects. These are good results, suggesting that the school is generally delivering solid academic outcomes for a middle school of this kind. Because the school serves only the middle grades, there is no graduation rate to report, and the state does not report chronic absenteeism data for this school. A parent who wants to understand attendance patterns or the full picture of student engagement would need to ask the school directly.
Enrollment is evenly spread across sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, with each grade having roughly a dozen or more students. That is large enough for a kid to find a peer group but small enough that most students will know almost everyone by name. The school is not a charter and is not a magnet; it is the traditional public middle school for the area. Housing in Minersville has appreciated notably in recent years, with home values rising at a pace that outpaces the national average, though homes remain more affordable than the Utah state benchmark. Estimated median home values sit well below the state figure, so a family buying in can expect to pay less than the typical Utah home, though the increase suggests demand is strong relative to the local supply. The town’s population has been relatively stable with a slight downward drift over the long term, and no major new housing developments or commercial projects have been publicly identified, so the growth pressure that is reshaping some parts of Utah has not reached Minersville in a visible way.
One gap in the publicly reported data is the absence of information on special education and English learner enrollment. Those counts were not available, so a parent with a child who has an individualized education program or who is learning English should ask the school about its staffing and services directly. The same caution applies to discipline and course access data, which were also not reported; the school may have solid offerings and climate, but a parent cannot verify that from the available public metrics alone. The comparison set for this school is the other districts in Beaver County, but because Minersville is the only middle school in the only school district in the county, there is no meaningful peer group to rank it against. The academic results stand on their own as a snapshot of a school that is performing well in the core subjects for its student population.
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