MIDWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in MENAN, Idaho, MIDWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, one of the schools within JEFFERSON COUNTY JOINT DISTRICT. It instructs 372 students across grades pre-K through 5.

JEFFERSON COUNTY JOINT DISTRICT comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 6,591 students; MIDWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, MIDWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 10% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, MIDWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting MIDWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) reports that median household income runs about $86,679, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Jefferson County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,578 students), MIDWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around MIDWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 4%: 356 students in 2018 compared to 372 in 2025.

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