At $18,168 per pupil, Bliss Joint District ranks #18 of 180 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending (Idaho districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$18,168
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Bliss Joint District operates 1 public schools serving 125 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Idaho. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Gooding County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,168 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 18 of 180 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending. See how Idaho compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 7.8% local, 75.0% state, and 17.2% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 220:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 63.6% White, 36.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Bliss School, enrolling 110 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Bliss School accounts for 88.0% of all Bliss Joint District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Bliss Joint District a distant remainder — means Bliss Joint District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Bliss Joint District reports 54.4% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. 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.
Bliss Joint District student-counselor ratio is 220:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.