PAYETTE PRIMARY SCHOOL

PAYETTE PRIMARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized K-5 school in PAYETTE, Idaho, operated by PAYETTE JOINT DISTRICT, instructs 477 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 44% larger than the typical public school in Idaho, which averages around 332 students.

PAYETTE PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by PAYETTE JOINT DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 1,483 students overall.

Demographically, PAYETTE PRIMARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment; the rest reads as 31% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting PAYETTE PRIMARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Payette County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, Payette County reports that median household earnings sit near $67,673, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. PAYETTE PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of 14 public schools in Payette County (combined enrollment of about 4,521 students).

PAYETTE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PAYETTE PRIMARY SCHOOL.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PAYETTE PRIMARY SCHOOL has showed little movement, going from 480 students in 2018 to 477 in 2025.

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