Summary:
ZIP code 84116 has one listed middle school, Northwest Middle, serving grades 7–8 and 542 students in the Salt Lake City area.
Northwest Middle is the only middle-school option identified in the ZIP code, so there is no within-area school comparison. The school serves a community with substantial economic need, with 87.08% of students participating in free or reduced-price lunch. Its student-teacher ratio is 15.1 to 1. In 2025–2026, proficiency was below both the Salt Lake District and Utah statewide results in every reported subject and grade. Average proficiency was about 20.3% in English Language Arts, 18.9% in mathematics, and 24.6% in science, compared with roughly 43%–49% for the district and state. The strongest result was 8th-grade science at 25.8%, while 8th-grade mathematics was lowest at 15.8%.
The school’s academic results in mathematics and science improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with gains in all four comparable grade-subject areas. However, Northwest Middle remained near the bottom statewide, ranking 213th of 217 schools and in the 2nd percentile. Chronic absenteeism was 29.5% in 2024–2025, nearly identical to the district rate but 5.7 percentage points above Utah’s rate, making attendance an important concern for families to consider. Parents may want to ask about plans for improving 8th-grade mathematics, strengthening reading and writing, maintaining recent science and math gains, reducing absences, and providing tutoring, counseling, and other supports. The older spending figure of $10,366 per student is from 2018–2019 and may not reflect current resources.
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