LEADORE SCHOOL

LEADORE SCHOOL is an one-room-style combined-grade school in LEADORE, Idaho, operated by SOUTH LEMHI DISTRICT. The school teaches 100 students in grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 80% below the typical public school in Idaho, which averages around 488 students.

SOUTH LEMHI DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 110 students; LEADORE SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LEADORE SCHOOL shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 10% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Lemhi County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 31.4:1 average. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Lemhi County put median household income runs about $53,202, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Lemhi County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 954 students), of which LEADORE SCHOOL is one.

TENDOY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 23.7 miles from this campus.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 25%: 80 students in 2018 compared to 100 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 5% to 10% across the same window.

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