LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL

LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is a 6-8 campus of big scale in MERIDIAN, Idaho, run under JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2, teacheing 898 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 77% above the typical public school in Idaho, which averages around 507 students.

Within JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2, which oversees 61 schools and 38,740 students, LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 66% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Ada County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.1:1, putting LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Ada County indicate median household earnings sit near $91,502, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Ada County runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 80,006 students), of which LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ELIZA HART SPALDING STEM ACADEMY, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL has fell 19%, going from 1,110 students in 2018 to 898 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 14% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 today.

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