The top reported proficiency rate is 55% in Math. The lowest is 49% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Monroe School
Monroe School serves kindergarten through fifth grade in the small rural city of Monroe, Utah, a place locals call “The Little Green Valley” for the fields that surround it. The town sits in Sevier County, bordered by mountains on the east and south and agricultural land to the west and north. It is a low-density community, and the school is a central part of it, one of three schools in town that together draw students from the surrounding area. Monroe is also home to Mystic Hot Springs, a longtime local attraction, and the city has been steadily growing, with recent annexation activity suggesting continued development.
About half of the students at Monroe School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker of the economic mix in the community. The student body is overwhelmingly white, with small shares of students who are Hispanic, American Indian or Alaska Native, Black, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or Asian. Because the school serves only elementary grades, there is no graduation rate to report, and school-level data on disability status and English learner status was not available from the source material.
On state assessments, Monroe School’s results fall in a middle band. In the most recent testing year, math proficiency was reported at just above half of students, while science proficiency landed at a similar level. English language arts proficiency, from the year prior, was just under half. These figures represent all students tested in the third through fifth grade range. The assessment used is Utah’s RISE test, and recent changes to the cut scores in English language arts mean the ELA result may not be directly comparable to earlier years. A parent looking at these numbers will see a school where about half of students are meeting state benchmarks in each subject, with math and science slightly ahead of reading. The data does not break out results by student group, so it is not possible to see how different populations within the school are performing from this source.
The district, Sevier District, showed no major recent changes in the search conducted, and no district-level strategic priorities or initiatives were available to report.
For a family considering Monroe School, the picture is one of a straightforward, community-rooted elementary school in a growing rural town. The school is the feeder for South Sevier Middle School and South Sevier High School, both also in Monroe. Children are bused in from several smaller neighboring communities, so the school serves as a regional hub for the southern part of the county. The academic profile shows a school where roughly half of students are performing at proficiency in core subjects, a solid but not standout result relative to what one might see across the state. A parent who values a small-town setting, a school at the center of its community, and a predictable elementary pathway that feeds into a single middle and high school will find that here. A parent who wants to dig into whether specific subgroups are being well served, or who wants to understand year-over-year trends in more detail, will need to ask the school directly for that information, as the available data does not provide it. The town’s steady growth and recent annexation suggest a community that is stable but not stagnant, and the housing market in the zip code, with home values somewhat above the national average, reflects a place that has seen appreciation, though no rent data was available for this area.
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