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Deary, Idaho - 2 schools
An equity score of 74/100 ranks Whitepine Joint School District #11 of 139 districts in Idaho (state average 48). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $19,204 per pupil, Whitepine Joint School District ranks #10 of 171 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending (Idaho districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
207
Total Enrollment
2
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$19,204
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Whitepine Joint School District operates 2 public schools serving 207 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 Latah County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,204 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 18 of 171 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending. See how Idaho compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 32.4% local, 54.8% state, and 12.9% 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 74/100, ranked #11 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.
a 102.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 98.8% White, 1.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Deary School, enrolling 145 students (71% of the district's total enrollment).
Deary School accounts for 70.0% of all Whitepine Joint School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Whitepine Joint School District a distant remainder — means Whitepine Joint School 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.
Whitepine Joint School District student-counselor ratio is 103:1 — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Whitepine Joint School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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