BEAR LAKE HIGH SCHOOL

BEAR LAKE HIGH SCHOOL is a senior high of cozy scale in MONTPELIER, Idaho, run under BEAR LAKE COUNTY DISTRICT, enrolling 361 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 21% below the state mean of about 455.

BEAR LAKE COUNTY DISTRICT runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 1,417 students. BEAR LAKE HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BEAR LAKE HIGH SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The remainder is composed of 4% Hispanic. Compared to Bear Lake County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bear Lake County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Bear Lake County put median household income runs about $75,260, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Bear Lake County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,417 students), BEAR LAKE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

A J WINTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. BEAR LAKE HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 14% since 2018, when it stood at 317 (now 361).

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