FALCON RIDGE PUBLIC CHARTER

FALCON RIDGE PUBLIC CHARTER, a cozy elementary school in KUNA, Idaho, operated by FALCON RIDGE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC., works with 275 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

Operationally, FALCON RIDGE PUBLIC CHARTER answers to FALCON RIDGE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC., which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, FALCON RIDGE PUBLIC CHARTER shows that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Ada County's rate of about 34%.

Zooming out to the county, Ada County reports that median household earnings sit near $91,502, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Ada County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 80,006 students), FALCON RIDGE PUBLIC CHARTER is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: INDIAN CREEK ELEMENTARY, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area. FALCON RIDGE PUBLIC CHARTER is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FALCON RIDGE PUBLIC CHARTER has held roughly steady, going from 274 students in 2018 to 275 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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