LAPWAI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LAPWAI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the intimate primary schools in LAPWAI, Idaho, run under LAPWAI DISTRICT, with 230 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 332 students per school, that is 31% below typical.

Across the 3 schools in LAPWAI DISTRICT (478 students total), LAPWAI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, LAPWAI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Native American, at 75% of enrollment; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 9% White, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LAPWAI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. Roughly 19% of students at LAPWAI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Nez Perce County (around 34%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Around the school, census data for Nez Perce County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,599 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Nez Perce County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,240 students), of which LAPWAI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

NEZ PERCE TRIBE HEAD START is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. LAPWAI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 252 (now 230). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 3% to 9%. Class-load math has widened: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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