NAPLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

NAPLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the one-room-style elementary schools in NAPLES, Idaho, part of BOUNDARY COUNTY DISTRICT, with 73 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 78% smaller than the state mean of about 332.

Within BOUNDARY COUNTY DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 1,455 students, NAPLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, NAPLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting NAPLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Boundary County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,237 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Boundary County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,455 students), NAPLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

BOUNDARY COUNTY ONLINE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 43%: 129 students in 2018 compared to 73 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 2% to 8% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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