DECLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in DECLO, Idaho, DECLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary campus, part of CASSIA COUNTY JOINT DISTRICT. It serves 453 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% bigger than the state mean of about 332.

CASSIA COUNTY JOINT DISTRICT runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 5,484 students. DECLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, DECLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that nearly all students (81%) are White. Other groups include 18% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting DECLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cassia County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,830 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Cassia County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,484 students), of which DECLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

DECLO JR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around DECLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 8%: 420 students in 2018 compared to 453 in 2025.

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