DEARY SCHOOL

DEARY SCHOOL operates as a very small all-grades campus in DEARY, Idaho, part of WHITEPINE JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 145 students spanning grades 4 through 12. By comparison, Idaho's public schools average about 488 students each, so DEARY SCHOOL sits 70% below that benchmark.

DEARY SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by WHITEPINE JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 205 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DEARY SCHOOL lists that 99% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 31.4:1 average. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Latah County's rate of about 30%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Latah County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,424 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Latah County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,163 students), DEARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BOVILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 8.9 miles away.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. DEARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 164 (now 145). Class-load math has tightened: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.