An equity score of 70/100 ranks Garden Valley District #20 of 146 districts in Idaho (state average 48). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,638 per pupil, Garden Valley District ranks #34 of 180 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending (Idaho districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
276
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$15,638
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Garden Valley District operates 2 public schools serving 276 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Idaho. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Boise County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,638 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 180 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending. See how Idaho compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 30.7% local, 43.4% state, and 25.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 70/100, ranked #20 of 146 in Idaho against a state average of 48, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 220:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 95.5% White, 2.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Garden Valley School, enrolling 220 students (100% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Lowman Elementary School, at 1 students, a 220x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Garden Valley School accounts for 79.7% of all Garden Valley District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Garden Valley District a distant remainder — means Garden Valley 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.
Garden Valley 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.