HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of intimate scale in BOISE, Idaho, operated by BOISE INDEPENDENT DISTRICT, teacheing 264 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 20% leaner than the state mean of about 332.

BOISE INDEPENDENT DISTRICT comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 22,134 students; HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ada County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Ada County indicate the typical household earns roughly $91,502 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Ada County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 80,006 students), HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PEACE VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 25%: 352 students in 2018 compared to 264 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged up from 5% to 14% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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