Enrollment
174
Idaho · 2024-25 NCES data
Other / mixed grade configuration · Nezperce, ID
Nezperce School
Federal NCES profile for Nezperce School, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 40/100.
2024-25 NCES dataOther / mixed grade configurationNCES 160240000848
👥 S:T ratio 59
🌟 Gifted program 30
🎓 Counselors 30
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →
The verdict
Nezperce School earns 40/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes smaller than 92% of Idaho schools.
- 40
- Resource Index · Typical
- 10.2:1
- small classes for Idaho
- 23.3%
- free-lunch eligible
- 174
- students enrolled
Nezperce School has class sizes smaller than 92% of Idaho schools. Computed live against every Idaho school reporting to NCES.
School address
District: Nezperce Joint District · Idaho
NCES ID 160240000848 Verify on NCES CCD record →
Teachers (FTE)
17.0
Federal CCD staff survey
Students per teacher
10.2:1
vs 17.1:1 Idaho avg
-40% vs state
Free-lunch eligible
23.3%
vs 29.3% Idaho avg
-20% vs state
Student-teacher ratio in context
How Nezperce School compares with Idaho and U.S. medians
What stands out at Nezperce School
Teacher staffing is the clearest operational strength
Nezperce School's enrollment is not at an extreme, but its student-teacher ratio is: it reports fewer students per teacher than most Idaho schools. This is the most distinctive scale-adjusted signal in the federal record. It should be read as staffing capacity, not class size or an academic outcome; the page separately reports attendance, program access, demographics, and district finance so a single favorable ratio does not become an unsupported overall rating.
Need and resources require a component-level read
Nezperce School falls within the wide middle of the Idaho distribution on both free-meal eligibility and the Resource Investment Index. Neither measure supplies an honest headline by itself. The useful distinctions are in the components: classroom staffing, counselor availability, attendance, gifted-program access, and district spending. Those fields can pull in opposite directions even when the overall percentile looks ordinary.
A combined-grade campus has a different support burden
Nezperce School serves a combined grade span rather than a conventional elementary, middle, or high-school band. That structure can require the same campus to cover transitions, counseling needs, and programs for students at substantially different developmental stages, so a single staffing ratio deserves more caution than it would at a narrower-grade school. Federal totals show the available people and programs, but not how those resources are divided among grade levels.
Nezperce School is a mid-sized combined-grade school in Nezperce, Idaho, enrolling 174 students.
Classes run notably small here: at 10.2:1, Nezperce School is leaner than roughly 92% of Idaho schools and 40% under the state's 17.1:1 norm, more adult attention per pupil than most peers.
Its free-meal eligibility rate of 23.3% lands close to the Idaho typical range, neither a high- nor low-need campus by this measure.
Enrollment of 174 puts it in the smaller third of Idaho schools by headcount.
Its Resource Investment Index sits near the middle of the pack among 775 scored Idaho schools.
Among 94 similarly sized, similarly resourced-need Idaho schools statewide, it ranks #71, in the lower tier once campus size and economic need are matched.
Its student body is predominantly White (87% of enrollment) (diversity index 23/100).
Counselor availability sits well past the ASCA benchmark, roughly 348 students sharing each counselor, though short of the most stretched campuses.
The surrounding Nezperce Joint District spends $16,939 per pupil, 36% above the Idaho average, a better-resourced district than most.
Its district draws 16.6% of revenue from federal sources, an above-typical federal share that tends to track a higher-need student population.
Nezperce Joint District operates only this one school, so Nezperce School has no district-mates to compare against locally.
Sourced from NCES CCD, CRDC, and F-33 (federal records, not a quality verdict). How we source and compute this.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data + CRDC + F-33 · 2024-25
How Nezperce School compares
Nezperce School on the metrics families compare, against Idaho and U.S. means.
| Metric | This school | vs Idaho | Idaho avg | U.S. avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students per teacher | 10.2:1 | ▼ 40% | 17.1:1 | 15.7:1 |
| Free-lunch eligible | 23.3% | ▼ 20% | 29.3% | 51.7% |
| Enrollment | 174 | top 73% | - | - |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25
10.2:1
Leaner classes than 88% of US schools, among the more generously staffed nationally.
174
Bigger than 17% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.
Equity indicators (what these measure)
Economic need
23.3%
free-lunch eligible
- 20% below the Idaho average of 29.3%
Below the 40% Title I threshold; federal aid targets individual qualifying students rather than schoolwide programs.
Staffing depth
10.2:1
students per teacher
- 40% below state mean
Top 8% in Idaho - lower ratio than 92% of state schools
Well under the widely cited 15:1 individualized-attention benchmark, among the leaner class loads nationally.
Funding equity
$16,939
per pupil, district-wide
- above Idaho avg of $12,445
Close to the U.S. public-school average per-pupil spend.
Support staff
Counselors0.5 FTE
Student-support staffing from the Civil Rights Data Collection.
Discipline context
2
in-school suspensions + 1 out-of-school
Suspension rate: 1.1 per 100 students. Combined in-school and out-of-school rate: 1.7 per 100 students. Reported via the Civil Rights Data Collection.
Student demographics
White 87.4%
Two or More 6.3%
Hispanic or Latino 5.2%
American Indian / Alaska Native 1.1%
Largest group: White at 87.4% of enrollment.
Student-body diversity index 22.9/100
Simpson diversity index - at 22.9, Nezperce School is less mixed than the Idaho school average of 36.3.
Programs
Funding & spending
District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Nezperce Joint District, which includes Nezperce School.
$16,939
Per student
+36%
vs Idaho
Avg $12,445
-4%
vs U.S.
Avg $17,658
Revenue mix
Local 21.5%
State 62.0%
Federal 16.6%
Source: NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey District-level finance · FY 2022-23 Per-pupil expenditure reflects the district-wide average. Individual school budgets are not reported at the federal level.
Similar other schools statewide
Matched by enrollment size and by staffing ratio across all of Idaho, not just this city - a different peer set than the local comparisons above.
Similar enrollment (~174 students)
Next steps
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Frequently asked questions about Nezperce School
How many students attend Nezperce School?
Nezperce School has 174 students enrolled. It is a public school in Nezperce, ID.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Nezperce School?
The student-teacher ratio at Nezperce School is 10.2:1, which is 40% lower than the Idaho average of 17.1:1 and 35% lower than the national average of 15.7:1. Lower ratios generally mean more individual attention per student.
What percentage of students receive free lunch at Nezperce School?
23.3% of students at Nezperce School are eligible for free lunch, compared to the Idaho average of 29.3%.
What is the racial and ethnic makeup of Nezperce School?
The largest demographic group at Nezperce School is White at 87.4% of enrollment, in Nezperce, ID.
What is the Resource Investment Index for Nezperce School?
Nezperce School has a Resource Investment Index of 40/100 (typical reported resources relative to schools nationally) based on 3 factors: student-teacher ratio, gifted-program reporting, counselor availability. Not a test-score or academic measure (national median ~41/100, see methodology).
What other schools are in Nezperce Joint District?
None reported; Nezperce Joint District operates only Nezperce School as a public school district in NCES's records.
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