USTICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a reasonably sized K-5 school in BOISE, Idaho, USTICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL educates 389 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2.

USTICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 61 schools operated by JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2, a district that serves 38,740 students overall.

On demographics, USTICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 32% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, USTICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ada County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Ada County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $91,502 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Ada County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 80,006 students), USTICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FRONTIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

USTICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. USTICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 440 (now 389). Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 32% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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