CHIEF TAHGEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY

CHIEF TAHGEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY is one of the very small K-5 schools in FORT HALL, Idaho, run under CHIEF TAHGEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY INC., with 109 students on its rolls from grades K through 7. That puts it 67% leaner than the typical public school in Idaho, which averages around 332 students.

CHIEF TAHGEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY sits inside CHIEF TAHGEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY INC., the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Looking at the student body, CHIEF TAHGEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY lists that 98% of students identify as Native American, making the school strongly Native American-majority.

On the resource side, CHIEF TAHGEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY logs 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Bannock County's rate of about 44%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bannock County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,499, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Bannock County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,358 students), of which CHIEF TAHGEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY is one.

Shoshone-Bannock School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around CHIEF TAHGEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY.

CHIEF TAHGEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY operates from a low-density location. CHIEF TAHGEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. CHIEF TAHGEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY's enrollment has rose 24% since 2018, when it stood at 88 (now 109). Class-load math has grew: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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