An equity score of 73/100 ranks Whitepine Joint School District #13 of 146 districts in Idaho (state average 48). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $18,116 per pupil, Whitepine Joint School District ranks #21 of 180 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending (Idaho districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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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 $18,116 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 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 73/100, ranked #13 of 146 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 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.
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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