ARCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in ARCO, Idaho, ARCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a compact elementary school, one of the schools within BUTTE COUNTY JOINT DISTRICT. It teaches 186 students across grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 332 students per school, that is 44% smaller than typical.

Within BUTTE COUNTY JOINT DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 376 students, ARCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, ARCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 11% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, ARCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at ARCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Butte County indicate the typical household earns roughly $53,015 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Butte County's 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 376 students), ARCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

BUTTE COUNTY MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 193 students in 2018 compared to 186 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 4% to 11% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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