• Our Work
• Collective Impact
• Promise Partnerships
  • Clearfield
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  • Kearns
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  • South Salt Lake
  • West Valley
  • Refugee Youth
• Kearns Neighborhood Centers
• Kearns Jr. High Community School
• Oquirrh Hills Elementary Community School

Promise Partners in Kearns work with United Way of Salt Lake in the neighborhoods surrounding two Community Schools: Kearns Jr. High and Oquirrh Hills Elementary. This area has a population of nearly 35,000 people. 35 percent of whom are children under the age of nineteen. Kearns has a high incidence of poverty with 37 percent of kids and families at or near the poverty level. About 75 percent of Oquirrh Hills and Kearns Junior High students utilize free or reduced-price school lunch. Academically, Kearns students are slipping through the cracks. Thirty percent of elementary school children are not reading on grade level and 45 percent of elementary and junior high students are below grade level in math. The graduation rate is starting, at just 67 percent.

Kearns' promise is to focus its efforts on providing the resources families need to thrive and develop a cradle to career pipeline that ensures children are on tract to succeed academically.

KEARNS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS:

Kearns Junior High Community School

Oquirrh Hills Elementary Community School