KOELSCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

KOELSCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized K-5 school in BOISE, Idaho, one of the schools within BOISE INDEPENDENT DISTRICT, serves 321 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

KOELSCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 52 schools operated by BOISE INDEPENDENT DISTRICT, a district that educates 22,134 students overall.

On demographics, KOELSCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 14% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Ada County (around 34%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Ada County) logs that median household income runs about $91,502, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Ada County runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 80,006 students), of which KOELSCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is ANSER CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KOELSCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

KOELSCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KOELSCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 19%, going from 398 students in 2018 to 321 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 59% to 50% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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