HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in HOPE, Idaho, HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a very small elementary-level community, overseen by LAKE PEND OREILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 117 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 65% leaner than the typical public school in Idaho, which averages around 332 students.

HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 13 schools operated by LAKE PEND OREILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 3,653 students overall.

On demographics, HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Bonner County's rate of about 40%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Bonner County put the typical household earns roughly $66,979 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Bonner County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,835 students), HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CLARK FORK JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.3 miles from this campus.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 15% since 2018, when it stood at 102 (now 117).

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