At $15,800 per pupil, Heritage Academy Inc. ranks #31 of 180 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending (Idaho districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
155
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$15,800
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
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 $15,800 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 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 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.
Heritage Academy Inc. reports 55.5% 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.
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.