Summary
Sunset View School is a public elementary school in Provo, Utah, serving 628 students in prekindergarten through sixth grade in a moderately high-needs, economically mixed area. The school is part of the Provo District, which ranks near the middle of Utah districts, while Sunset View ranks 352nd out of 563 Utah schools, placing it at the 37th percentile. Its 2025–2026 two-star rating is below most nearby Provo schools, although the school has improved substantially from the 21st percentile in 2015–2016.
Academic results are uneven. English language arts proficiency is below both district and state averages in grades 3–6, averaging about 39.8%, with the largest gaps in fifth and sixth grades. Mathematics improved notably, from about 33.1% proficient in 2024–2025 to 43.3% in 2025–2026, but third-grade math remains a major weakness. Fourth-grade math is a relative strength, slightly exceeding district performance. Science is the school’s strongest broad subject area, averaging about 50.1%; fourth grade exceeds both district and state results, though fifth grade is considerably weaker. For comparison, Wasatch School ranks at the 91st percentile, while Westridge School, Provo Peaks School, Lakeview School, and Provost School also rank higher than Sunset View.
Attendance is an important concern: chronic absenteeism was 28.8% in 2024–2025, above the district’s 22.3% and Utah’s 23.8%, despite improving from 35.8% in 2020–2021. Sunset View’s student-teacher ratio of 21.2 is typical locally, and its 47.77% free/reduced-price lunch rate is higher than at Wasatch, Westridge, and Lakeview but lower than at several other nearby schools. The school’s subgroup results suggest some groups perform more strongly than the overall ranking indicates, including a 72nd-percentile ranking for White students and a 54th-percentile ranking for low-socioeconomic-status students. Overall, the clearest priorities are improving attendance, strengthening third-grade math and fifth-grade science, and raising ELA performance while building on recent math and science gains.
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