POTLATCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

POTLATCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the modestly sized elementary campuss in POTLATCH, Idaho, overseen by POTLATCH DISTRICT, with 239 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Idaho's public schools average about 332 students each, so POTLATCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 28% below that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in POTLATCH DISTRICT (448 students total), POTLATCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, POTLATCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Latah County (around 30%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Latah County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,424 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Latah County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,163 students), POTLATCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

POTLATCH JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. POTLATCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 240 (now 239). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 1% to 7% over that span.

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