The top reported proficiency rate is 40% in Science. The lowest is 27% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Midvalley School
Midvalley School serves kindergarten through fifth grade in Midvale, a city within the Canyons School District. The school sits in a community bisected by an interstate highway, with a mix of commercial corridors, historic downtown along a main street, and new development on former industrial land on the west side. The city is one of the few in Utah with two light rail lines and three stations, making transit a real feature of daily life here, though residential neighborhoods still tend to be car-dependent. Major corporate headquarters sit in the Bingham Junction redevelopment, a cleaned-up former steel slag site that has brought thousands of new housing units and office space. A second phase called Jordan Bluffs is in early redevelopment, proposing additional homes and commercial space. Voters in the Canyons District recently approved a large bond to rebuild and renovate aging schools and fund safety upgrades, with the district structuring it to replace expiring debt so it would not increase the property tax rate.
Midvalley School enrolls a sizable student body for an elementary school. The student body is racially and ethnically diverse, with a large share of students identifying as white and a substantial share identifying as Hispanic, along with smaller groups of students who are Asian, Black, multiracial, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and American Indian or Alaska Native. Just over half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a measure of household income that is widely used in education data and indicates that a majority of families in this attendance zone are managing on modest incomes.
State testing data for Midvalley was available for three subjects tested in the grades this school serves. On the RISE assessments, proficiency rates for all students combined show that a lower than typical share of students met the state-defined proficient or above threshold in math, and a somewhat larger but still modest share did so in English language arts. The science proficiency rate was stronger, with two-fifths of students scoring at the proficient level or above. Looked at against other elementary and middle schools within the county, the school's overall proficiency across subjects places it below the midpoint among its peers in Salt Lake County. For a parent considering this school, these results are worth discussing directly with the school to understand what support looks like for students who are below the proficiency bar and what the trajectory has been in recent years. The data available covers a single recent year for each subject, so trend information was not available in this report to show whether performance is moving up or down.
Because Midvalley is an elementary school, there is no graduation rate to report, and data on chronic absenteeism was not available. The school's enrollment is large enough to offer a full grade-level classroom structure. The Canyons District bond passed in 2023 means that schools across the district, possibly including Midvalley, are candidates for renovation or rebuilding, so families may want to check the district's timeline to see if this school is on the list for upgrades. For now, the core academic picture suggests a school where a significant number of students are not yet meeting state benchmarks in reading and math, and where the science results are a relative bright spot. A parent looking at this school would want to learn more about the instructional approach, the specific support programs for students who are behind, and how the school's own leadership describes the path forward. The community context offers real advantages in transit access and a growing local economy, and the district bond signals a long-term investment in facilities.
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