PARMA MIDDLE SCHOOL

PARMA MIDDLE SCHOOL, a compact middle-grades school in PARMA, Idaho, overseen by PARMA DISTRICT, teaches 321 students, covering grades 5 through 8. That puts it 37% leaner than the typical public school in Idaho, which averages around 507 students.

Across the 3 schools in PARMA DISTRICT (1,003 students total), PARMA MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, PARMA MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 66% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 33% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at PARMA MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Canyon County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,488, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Canyon County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 44,048 students), of which PARMA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is PARMA HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARMA MIDDLE SCHOOL has decreased 7%, going from 347 students in 2018 to 321 in 2025.

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