Summary:
ZIP code 84601 in Provo has one listed middle school: Shoreline Middle School, serving grades 7–8. The school enrolls 877 students and has a 19:1 student-teacher ratio. Nearly half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating that the school serves a community with significant economic needs. Because there is only one middle school in the ZIP code, families cannot compare nearby schools within the area; instead, Shoreline’s results are best understood in relation to the Provo District and Utah statewide results.
Shoreline has a mixed academic profile. Science is the strongest subject, particularly 7th-grade science, where 45.2% of students were proficient—just 2.5 percentage points below the state result. Across the six reported subject-grade measures, however, Shoreline trailed both the district and state. English language arts proficiency was 37.6% in 7th grade and 36.0% in 8th grade, while mathematics proficiency was 39.7% in 7th grade and 30.6% in 8th grade. The 8th-grade mathematics result is the school’s clearest academic weakness, and 8th-grade science also had a sizable gap compared with the state. Overall, 7th-grade performance exceeded 8th-grade performance in every tested subject.
Attendance is a relative strength. In 2024–2025, chronic absenteeism at Shoreline was 17.4%, lower than the district’s 22.3% and Utah’s 23.8%, although attendance still affected a meaningful share of students. The school ranked in the 30th percentile statewide for 2025–2026 and received two stars, but its ranking has improved gradually from the 25th percentile in 2021–2022. For families considering the school, the main positives are its improving ranking, comparatively strong attendance, and stronger science performance. The most important areas for improvement are 8th-grade mathematics, 8th-grade science, and English language arts across both grades.
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