Summary:
Erda, Utah, has one listed school: Excelsior Academy, a large K–8 school serving 1,406 students at 124 E Erda Way. Because it is the only school in the city, families cannot compare it with another local school; instead, the most useful measures are its grade-level results, statewide comparisons, attendance, and recent trends.
Excelsior Academy performs around or slightly above Utah averages overall. In 2025–2026, its strongest results included fourth-grade math, with 60.9% of students proficient; sixth-grade science, at 62.0%; third-grade math, at 56.4%; and eighth-grade English language arts, at 52.6%. Science was a particular strength, exceeding the state in four of five tested grades, while English language arts was above the state in four of six grades. Elementary math was also encouraging, with third through fifth grades outperforming Utah by at least 6.3 percentage points.
The most important concern is eighth-grade math: only 17.5% of students were proficient, compared with 39.3% statewide, and the result dropped 25.4 points from the prior year. Seventh-grade science also declined substantially, from 59.1% to 40.4%. These upper-grade results suggest that the transition into middle-grade coursework deserves attention. Other indicators are more positive: chronic absenteeism was 16.4%, below Utah’s 23.8%, and the school improved from the 41st percentile and two stars in 2024–2025 to the 55th percentile and three stars in 2025–2026. Families should also interpret the reported 57.9 student-teacher ratio cautiously, since it may reflect the school’s staffing-reporting structure rather than typical classroom size.
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