OWYHEE HIGH SCHOOL

As a roomy secondary school in MERIDIAN, Idaho, OWYHEE HIGH SCHOOL educates 1,884 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2. Enrollment runs roughly 314% larger than the state mean of about 455.

JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2 comprises 61 schools with combined enrollment of 38,740 students; OWYHEE HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, OWYHEE HIGH SCHOOL logs that 80% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder is composed of 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, OWYHEE HIGH SCHOOL records 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting OWYHEE HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Ada County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Ada County indicate the typical household earns roughly $91,502 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ada County runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 80,006 students), of which OWYHEE HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: GEM PREP: MERIDIAN NORTH, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a rural site.

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