An equity score of 30/100 ranks Gem Prep: Meridian Llc #120 of 146 districts in Idaho (state average 48). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $7,872 per pupil, Gem Prep: Meridian Llc ranks #163 of 180 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending (Idaho districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Gem Prep: Meridian Llc operates 1 public schools serving 454 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 Ada County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $7,872 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 18 of 180 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending. See how Idaho compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 2.8% local, 76.1% state, and 21.1% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 30/100, ranked #120 of 146 in Idaho against a state average of 48, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 506:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, . Demographically, the student body averages 75.1% White, 15.8% Hispanic or Latino, 2.2% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Gem Prep: Meridian, enrolling 506 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Gem Prep: Meridian accounts for 100.0% of all Gem Prep: Meridian Llc student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Gem Prep: Meridian Llc a distant remainder — means Gem Prep: Meridian Llc-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.
Gem Prep: Meridian Llc student-counselor ratio is 506:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.