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Jerome, Idaho - 1 schools
At $12,911 per pupil, Heritage Academy Inc. ranks #49 of 171 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending (Idaho districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Heritage Academy Inc. operates 1 public schools serving 155 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 Jerome County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,911 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 1.1% local, 66.1% state, and 32.7% 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 440:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, . Demographically, the student body averages 48.3% Hispanic or Latino, 40.3% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Heritage Academy, enrolling 176 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Heritage Academy accounts for 100.0% of all Heritage Academy Inc. student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Heritage Academy Inc. a distant remainder — means Heritage Academy Inc.-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.
Heritage Academy Inc. has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 55.5% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Heritage Academy Inc. student-counselor ratio is 440:1 — 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.