MERIDIAN MEDICAL ARTS CHARTER

MERIDIAN MEDICAL ARTS CHARTER operates as an intimate secondary school in MERIDIAN, Idaho, run under JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2. Current enrollment sits at 191 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 58% below the state mean of about 455.

Across the 61 schools in JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2 (38,740 students total), MERIDIAN MEDICAL ARTS CHARTER accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, MERIDIAN MEDICAL ARTS CHARTER lists that White students make up the majority at 73%. Beyond that, the school lists 17% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.0:1 average. Roughly 16% of students at MERIDIAN MEDICAL ARTS CHARTER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ada County (around 34%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Across the wider county, Ada County reports 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 MERIDIAN MEDICAL ARTS CHARTER is one.

MERIDIAN TECHNICAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting. As a public charter, MERIDIAN MEDICAL ARTS CHARTER runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MERIDIAN MEDICAL ARTS CHARTER has held roughly steady, going from 193 students in 2018 to 191 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 8% to 17% over that span.

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