FALLS CITY ACADEMY

FALLS CITY ACADEMY is one of the one-room-style senior highs in JEROME, Idaho, overseen by JEROME JOINT DISTRICT, with 75 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 84% smaller than the typical public school in Idaho, which averages around 455 students.

JEROME JOINT DISTRICT runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,998 students. FALLS CITY ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, FALLS CITY ACADEMY lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%); the rest looks like 13% White. The wider county runs roughly 39% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 68% of students at FALLS CITY ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Jerome County) reports that median household income runs about $71,724, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Jerome County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,673 students), FALLS CITY ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

JEROME ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

FALLS CITY ACADEMY operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FALLS CITY ACADEMY has ticked up 178%, going from 27 students in 2018 to 75 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 33% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 8.1:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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