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Meridian, Idaho - 1 schools
An equity score of 38/100 ranks Gem Prep: Online Llc #93 of 139 districts in Idaho (state average 48). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,734 per pupil, Gem Prep: Online Llc ranks #38 of 171 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending (Idaho districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Gem Prep: Online Llc operates 1 public schools serving 276 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 $13,734 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 171 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending. See how Idaho compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 12.3% local, 63.4% state, and 24.3% 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 38/100, ranked #93 of 139 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 378:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, . Demographically, the student body averages 80.7% White, 13.5% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Gem Prep: Online School, enrolling 378 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Gem Prep: Online School accounts for 100.0% of all Gem Prep: Online Llc student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Gem Prep: Online Llc a distant remainder — means Gem Prep: Online Llc-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Gem Prep: Online Llc student-counselor ratio is 378:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.