HOWARD E THIRKILL PRIMARY SCHOOL

HOWARD E THIRKILL PRIMARY SCHOOL, a mid-tier elementary school in SODA SPRINGS, Idaho, overseen by SODA SPRINGS JOINT DISTRICT, serves 321 students, covering grades pre-K through 4.

SODA SPRINGS JOINT DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 843 students; HOWARD E THIRKILL PRIMARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, HOWARD E THIRKILL PRIMARY SCHOOL records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic. Compared to Caribou County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.7:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Around the school, census data for Caribou County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,782 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Caribou County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,541 students), of which HOWARD E THIRKILL PRIMARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: TIGERT MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. HOWARD E THIRKILL PRIMARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 340 (now 321). Hispanic enrollment moved from 4% to 9% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

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