NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools ID

Best-Resourced Schools in Wilder, ID

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5 public K-12 schools in Wilder from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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5
Schools
689
Students
41.6/100
Avg Resource Index
15:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Wilder has more public-school enrollment than 1% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Wilder sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Wilder's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 29-point gap between Cossa Academy and Wilder Middle School shows the range hidden by Wilder's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 99%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
53rd percentile
Teacher staffing
54th percentile

Idaho Future Ready Academy for Virtual Learning accounts for 29.3% of all Wilder public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Wilder-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Wilder school enrollment varies 2.6× across entities

Wilder school enrollment ranges from 79 students (lowest) to 202 students (highest), a spread of 123 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Wilder reports 77.3% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Wilder student-teacher ratio is 15.0:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Wilder is typically wider than the Wilder-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Cossa Academy 58
2. Wilder High School 48
3. Wilder Elementary School 39
4. Idaho Future Ready Academy for Virtual Learning 34
5. Wilder Middle School 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Wilder

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Cossa Academy 51.9/100
  2. 2 Wilder Elementary School 48.0/100
  3. 3 Idaho Future Ready Academy for Virtual Learning 44.3/100
  4. 4 Wilder Middle School 35.5/100
  5. 5 Wilder High School 34.7/100

What do families ask about schools in Wilder?

Which Wilder school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Cossa Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Wilder schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Wilder, ID? ▼

Wilder has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 689 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.