PRIEST RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in PRIEST RIVER, Idaho, PRIEST RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school, part of WEST BONNER COUNTY DISTRICT. It serves 356 students across grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 4 schools in WEST BONNER COUNTY DISTRICT (927 students total), PRIEST RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, PRIEST RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, PRIEST RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bonner County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bonner County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,979 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. PRIEST RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 19 public schools in Bonner County (combined enrollment of about 4,835 students).

PRIEST RIVER LAMANNA HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. PRIEST RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 431 (now 356).

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