Meadows Valley District operates 1 public schools serving 142 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Idaho. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 other schools, giving families a clear picture of grade-band coverage before they move, rent, or enrol. Aggregated across those campuses, enrollment totals 142 pupils using the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is geographically located in Adams County County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,399 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, which aggregates every revenue and spending line reported under federal accounting standards. The funding mix is 18.1% local, 63.4% state, and 18.5% federal — a breakdown that matters because districts leaning heavily on local revenue are more exposed to property-tax swings, while higher federal shares typically track Title I concentration. Average teacher compensation clocks in at $97,059 per NCES F-33, a signal of the district's ability to recruit and retain staff against neighbouring districts.
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.
Meadows Valley School accounts for 100.0% of all Meadows Valley District student enrollment
That concentration — well above the 8.4% national median for largest-entity share — means Meadows Valley District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: other. 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.
Meadows Valley District student-counselor ratio is 142:1 — 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.