SUMMIT ELEMENTARY

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in JEROME, Idaho, SUMMIT ELEMENTARY works with 460 students from grades K through 5, overseen by JEROME JOINT DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 39% larger than the state mean of about 332.

JEROME JOINT DISTRICT runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,998 students. SUMMIT ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, SUMMIT ELEMENTARY reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 30% White. The wider county runs roughly 39% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.2:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 75% of students at SUMMIT ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Jerome County's rate of about 61%.

Across the wider county, census data for Jerome County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,724 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Jerome County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,673 students), of which SUMMIT ELEMENTARY is one.

JEROME MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUMMIT ELEMENTARY.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. SUMMIT ELEMENTARY's enrollment has shrank 33% since 2018, when it stood at 684 (now 460). Over the same period, the White share fell from 43% to 30%. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

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