SAWTOOTH MIDDLE SCHOOL

SAWTOOTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is a 6-8 campus of roomy scale in MERIDIAN, Idaho, operated by JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2, hosting 829 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 64% above the state mean of about 507.

Within JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2, which oversees 61 schools and 38,740 students, SAWTOOTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, SAWTOOTH MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Ada County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, SAWTOOTH MIDDLE SCHOOL records 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.1:1, putting SAWTOOTH MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Ada County's rate of about 34%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Ada County put the typical household earns roughly $91,502 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Ada County runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 80,006 students), of which SAWTOOTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

HUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SAWTOOTH MIDDLE SCHOOL.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 1,049 students in 2018 compared to 829 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for SAWTOOTH MIDDLE SCHOOL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.