EAST CANYON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

EAST CANYON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of roomy scale in NAMPA, Idaho, overseen by VALLIVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT, serveing 799 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 141% above the typical public school in Idaho, which averages around 332 students.

Within VALLIVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 13 schools and 10,339 students, EAST CANYON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, EAST CANYON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Canyon County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, EAST CANYON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.8:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Canyon County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,488, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Canyon County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 44,048 students), of which EAST CANYON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

RIDGEVUE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EAST CANYON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EAST CANYON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has rose 53%, going from 522 students in 2018 to 799 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 46% to 40% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.

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