At $18,817 per pupil, Meadows Valley District ranks #15 of 180 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending (Idaho districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$18,817
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Meadows Valley District operates 1 public schools serving 142 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 Adams County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,817 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 18 of 180 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending. See how Idaho compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 18.1% local, 63.4% state, and 18.5% 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 142:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 83.1% White, 14.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Meadows Valley School, enrolling 142 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Meadows Valley School accounts for 100.0% of all Meadows Valley District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Meadows Valley District a distant remainder — means Meadows Valley District-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.
Meadows Valley District student-counselor ratio is 142:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.