NEW PLYMOUTH ELEMENTARY

NEW PLYMOUTH ELEMENTARY is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in NEW PLYMOUTH, Idaho, one of the schools within NEW PLYMOUTH DISTRICT, serveing 404 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% above the state mean of about 332.

Within NEW PLYMOUTH DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 898 students, NEW PLYMOUTH ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, NEW PLYMOUTH ELEMENTARY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%); the rest is composed of 17% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Payette County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting NEW PLYMOUTH ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Payette County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, Payette County reports that median household income runs about $67,673, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Payette County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,521 students), NEW PLYMOUTH ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

NEW PLYMOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools.

NEW PLYMOUTH ELEMENTARY operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. NEW PLYMOUTH ELEMENTARY's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 451 (now 404). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 85% to 80%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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