SALMON PIONEER PRIMARY SCHOOL

Located at 900 SHARKEY STREET, in SALMON, Idaho, SALMON PIONEER PRIMARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary school that enrolls 286 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within SALMON DISTRICT.

Within SALMON DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 647 students, SALMON PIONEER PRIMARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SALMON PIONEER PRIMARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder comes out to 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, SALMON PIONEER PRIMARY SCHOOL reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Lemhi County indicate median household earnings sit near $53,202, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. SALMON PIONEER PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of 9 public schools in Lemhi County (combined enrollment of about 954 students).

SALMON JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around SALMON PIONEER PRIMARY SCHOOL.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. SALMON PIONEER PRIMARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 19% since 2018, when it stood at 352 (now 286). Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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