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Mackay, Idaho - 2 schools
An equity score of 65/100 ranks Mackay Joint District #32 of 139 districts in Idaho (state average 48). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,322 per pupil, Mackay Joint District ranks #68 of 171 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending (Idaho districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Mackay Joint District operates 2 public schools serving 231 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 Custer County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,322 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 18.7% local, 65.9% state, and 15.4% 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 65/100, ranked #32 of 139 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 (2 AP courses district-wide), a 218:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 88.6% White, 9.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Mackay Elementary School, enrolling 114 students (52% of the district's total enrollment).
Mackay Elementary School accounts for 49.4% of all Mackay Joint District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mackay Joint District a distant remainder — means Mackay Joint District-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.
Mackay Joint District student-counselor ratio is 218:1 — 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.