Summary:
Price, Utah, has two elementary schools serving grades from pre-kindergarten or kindergarten through fifth grade: Creekview School and Castle Heights School. Together they enroll 758 students and are part of Carbon District, which ranks in the middle range among Utah districts. The schools are similar in size and have nearly identical free- and reduced-price lunch rates, making their differences in academic results, attendance, and staffing useful for families comparing local options.
Castle Heights School has the stronger overall profile. It ranks 228th of 563 Utah schools, compared with 329th for Creekview School, and has a lower chronic absenteeism rate: 20.2% versus 28.3%. Castle Heights also reports a lower student-teacher ratio, 18.9 compared with 20.4. Its biggest academic advantages are mathematics and science. It exceeded district and state mathematics results in third and fourth grade and averaged about 60% proficiency in science. However, parents should note that fifth-grade mathematics was weak at both schools, with each reporting 32.8% proficiency. Castle Heights also had a major fifth-grade mathematics decline from the previous year and a comparatively low fifth-grade English Language Arts result of 39.0%.
Creekview School stands out for English Language Arts. It averaged about 53% proficiency across tested ELA grades and had an especially strong fifth-grade result of 61.8%, well above the district and state. Its mathematics results were lower than state results in every tested grade, while science performance was around or below comparison benchmarks. Castle Heights School therefore appears to be the better all-around choice based on the available measures, while Creekview may appeal most to families prioritizing literacy strength. Both schools deserve attention to fifth-grade mathematics, and Creekview may also benefit from continued focus on attendance and math instruction.
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