Summary:
ZIP code 84414 has two middle schools, both serving grades 7–9 in the Weber District area: Orion Junior High and North Ogden Junior High. The schools are similar in size, staffing, attendance, and overall academic results, and both receive a two-star rating. Orion enrolls about 1,000 students, while North Ogden enrolls 862, with nearly identical student-teacher ratios of about 23 to 1.
North Ogden Junior High has the stronger statewide ranking, placing 130th of 217 schools in the 40th percentile, compared with 141st and the 35th percentile for Orion Junior High. North Ogden also has the better recent ranking trend and a clear advantage in eighth-grade math, where 37.3% of students were proficient compared with 27.6% at Orion. Both schools improved considerably in middle-grade math from the previous year. Attendance is a positive at both schools: chronic absenteeism was about 13%, well below the district’s 21.8% and the state’s 23.8%.
Orion Junior High stands out in ninth-grade Utah Aspire Plus results. It exceeded both North Ogden and the state in ninth-grade English, math, and science, including the highest score in the comparison—54.2% proficient in science. The schools are otherwise closely matched in middle-grade English and science, although both remain below statewide results in several areas, especially seventh-grade science and eighth-grade math. For parents comparing the two, North Ogden appears stronger overall and in eighth-grade math, while Orion offers the stronger ninth-grade academic profile. Other differences, including lunch-program participation and older spending figures, are modest or too dated to be decisive.
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