Public Schools in Idaho
778 schools · 183 districts · 317,342 students
Largest Schools in Idaho
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Idaho Home Learning Academy
Malad City
Mountain View High School
Meridian
Rigby High School
Rigby
Centennial High School
Boise
Rocky Mountain High School
Meridian
Eagle High School
Eagle
Meridian High School
Meridian
Owyhee High School
Meridian
Kuna High School
Kuna
Thunder Ridge High School
Idaho Falls
Frequently Asked Questions
Idaho has 778 public schools across 183 districts, serving 317,342 students.
The largest school in Idaho is Idaho Home Learning Academy with 6,875 students. Idaho has 778 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 54%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.