JEROME ACADEMY

JEROME ACADEMY, a very small combined-grade school in JEROME, Idaho, one of the schools within JEROME JOINT DISTRICT, instructs 4 students, covering grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 99% below the state mean of about 488.

Within JEROME JOINT DISTRICT, which oversees 8 schools and 3,998 students, JEROME ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, JEROME ACADEMY reports that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. By comparison, Jerome County as a whole is about 65% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, JEROME ACADEMY shows 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 31.4:1 average.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Jerome County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,724 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. JEROME ACADEMY is one of 11 public schools in Jerome County (combined enrollment of about 4,673 students).

Nearest neighbor: FALLS CITY ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JEROME ACADEMY.

JEROME ACADEMY operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 50%: 8 students in 2018 compared to 4 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share climbed from 63% to 100%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 40.0:1 in 2018 to 6.7:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.