DOWNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 88 SOUTH 4TH EAST, in DOWNEY, Idaho, DOWNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a tiny K-5 school that educates 75 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under MARSH VALLEY JOINT DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 77% leaner than the state mean of about 332.

DOWNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 6 schools operated by MARSH VALLEY JOINT DISTRICT, a district that educates 1,064 students overall.

On demographics, DOWNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 7% Native American, 3% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, DOWNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bannock County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bannock County) records that 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%. Across Bannock County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,358 students), DOWNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MARSH VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 10.9 miles from this campus.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. DOWNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 36% since 2018, when it stood at 117 (now 75). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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