ATHOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ATHOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in ATHOL, Idaho, run under LAKELAND DISTRICT, with 287 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within LAKELAND DISTRICT, which oversees 11 schools and 4,568 students, ATHOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ATHOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Kootenai County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Kootenai County put the typical household earns roughly $81,861 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Kootenai County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,554 students), ATHOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: TIMBERLAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 7.6 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 348 students in 2018 compared to 287 in 2025.

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