The top reported proficiency rate is 44% in Science. The lowest is 37% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Antelope School
Antelope School serves students from preschool through sixth grade in Clearfield, a community in Davis County that grew rapidly after the 1940s when Hill Air Force Base and the former Naval Supply Depot transformed the area from farmland into a suburban and industrial hub. The school sits along Main Street in a city that still combines residential neighborhoods with commercial corridors and the large Freeport Center industrial district, which houses dozens of companies. Clearfield has a young population, with a notable share of residents under eighteen, and the city has seen steady growth over the decades, including the more recent opening of a FrontRunner commuter rail station and a new aquatic center.
The school is part of Davis District, one of Utah's larger public school systems. In recent years the district opened a new comprehensive high school to ease overcrowding and expanded optional full-day kindergarten across its elementary schools, changes that ripple into the feeder patterns families consider at Antelope. For a preschool-through-sixth-grade building, the relevant academic measures stop at the elementary level. The school's state assessment results, drawn from the RISE tests for third through sixth grade, show proficiency rates that land below the midpoint among Davis County districts when averaged across subjects. In math, just over a third of students scored proficient, while in English language arts the share was modestly higher. Science proficiency came in between the two. A parent examining these numbers will want to consider them in context: the school serves a population where about two in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a figure that points to some economic diversity in the student body. The enrollment is substantial for an elementary school, and the grade-level counts are fairly balanced, with the largest cohort in third grade.
Student demographics show a student body that is predominantly white, with a Hispanic enrollment that makes up a visible share, and smaller proportions of students who are Black, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Asian, or of two or more races. Data on students with disabilities and English learners was not available, so a family with a child in either category would want to ask the school directly about how those services are structured. The school is not a charter or magnet, and its Title I status was not listed in the data provided.
Clearfield itself offers a mix of civic amenities that families might use, including a community arts center, a skate park at Bernard Fisher Park, and the aquatic center. The city's major employers include Hill Air Force Base and the Freeport Center, which together anchor the local economy. Housing values in the area are moderately above national benchmarks, and rent prices have been rising in recent years. The FrontRunner station gives residents a rail connection to the broader Wasatch Front region.
For a family considering Antelope Elementary, the picture is of a mid-sized neighborhood school in a working-to-middle-class suburb with a strong industrial and military employment base. The academic results are below the county midpoint, and the absence of certain data fields means that some important questions about special education and English learner support remain unanswered for now. The school's strength lies in its place within a district that has recently invested in new facilities and early childhood programming, and in its role as a community anchor in a growing city. Parents weighing this school alongside others in Davis County will want to visit, talk to staff about how the school addresses the proficiency gaps the state tests show, and understand what the upper-grade feeder pattern looks like once their child leaves sixth grade.
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