Idaho public school directory

Figures

Records

Every Idaho public school

One row per Idaho public school the department's newest-year building workbook reports, joined to NCES's own school directory, characteristics and geographic files.

An excerpt; the full table is below.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey. Published July 2025.

Pages built on this dataset

• Idaho public schools
• Idaho charter schools

Publisher

Organization

National Center for Education Statistics

Publisher’s dataset

Common Core of Data, Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey

File or API used

https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/Data/zip/ccd_sch_029_2425_w_1a_073025.zip

Methodology

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/SchoolLocations

Coverage

Geography

Idaho (statewide, by school)

Time coverage

School year 2024-25 directory and county; school year 2023-24 virtual status and enrollment comparison; enrollment itself is the department's newest year, 2025-26

Update frequency

Annual

Published

July 2025

Retrieved

September 25, 2026

License of the records

Public domain. U.S. federal government work.

Rows

9 observations, 791 records, 2023-2024

Measures

Record fields

One row per Idaho public school the department's newest-year building workbook reports, joined to NCES's own school directory, characteristics and geographic files.

• lea_number: The department's own local education agency (district or charter) number.
• district_name: The school's district or charter LEA name, as the department's workbook prints it.
• school_name: The school's name, as the department's workbook prints it.
• building_number: The department's own building number within its LEA.
• nces_id: NCES's own 12-digit school id (NCESSCH), or null when this school has no match in NCES's newest directory.
• ccd_school_name: The school's name as NCES's directory prints it, or null when unmatched; kept beside school_name so a reader can see where the two publishers spell or split a school differently.
• city: The school's mailing city, from NCES's directory, or null when unmatched.
• county_name: The county NCES's geographic update assigns the school, or null when unmatched.
• county_fips: 5-digit county FIPS code, or null when unmatched.
• grade_low: The lowest grade NCES's directory lists the school as offering, or null when unmatched.
• grade_high: The highest grade NCES's directory lists the school as offering, or null when unmatched.
• school_type: NCES's own school type (Regular, Alternative, Special Education, or Career and Technical), or null when unmatched.
• status: NCES's own open/closed/new status as of its 2024-25 directory, or null when unmatched.
• charter: Whether NCES's directory flags the school as a charter school, or null when unmatched.
• virtual_status: NCES's own virtual-instruction category for school year 2023-24 (Exclusively virtual, Primarily virtual, Supplemental Virtual, or No virtual instruction), or null when the school has no 2023-24 characteristics record.
• virtual: Whether virtual_status is Exclusively virtual or Primarily virtual; false when virtual_status is null or No virtual instruction.
• website: The school's website as NCES's directory prints it, or null when blank (true for most Idaho schools in this file).
• enrollment: The department's own fall 2025-26 membership headcount for this school.

Caveats

• A school's enrollment is the State Department of Education's own newest-year (2025-26) count; every other field is from NCES's own newest school directory (2024-25) except virtual status, which NCES stopped reporting for Idaho after school year 2023-24.
• Idaho Digital Learning Academy, a state-run supplemental online-course provider, teaches students who remain enrolled at their own school and has no fall membership count of its own, so it does not appear as a row in this table.
• A school the department stopped reporting fall enrollment for is left out of this table entirely, whatever NCES's own status field says; a school NCES's newest directory already lists as Closed, New or Future, by contrast, is kept if the department still reports it.
• Of 791 schools the department reports, 773 are matched to an NCES school id (766 by their department and NCES id numbers agreeing, 7 more by name after the department renumbered the school's local education agency since NCES's directory was compiled); the remaining 18 have no NCES match, mostly small online programs, two schools opened in 2025-26 after NCES's newest directory, and the interstate border-agreement buildings that serve mostly non-Idaho residents. An unmatched school's city, county, charter status, virtual status, grade span, school type and NCES id are null rather than guessed.
• Virtual status is not a trend: NCES collected it for Idaho only in school year 2023-24 (29 schools "Exclusively virtual", 8 "Primarily virtual", 1 "Supplemental Virtual"), and its newest Idaho release (2024-25) reports every school's virtual status as "Not reported". A school this dataset marks virtual is one NCES classified as exclusively or primarily virtual in 2023-24; a school opened since then has no virtual classification.
• Counts charter local education agencies' own buildings that NCES's directory flags as charter schools, not SDE's count of charter LEAs (education.charter_school_count, dataset sde-school-enrollment); the two differ because a charter LEA can run more than one building and because a few charter schools have no NCES match (see above).

How to cite

Understand Idaho, “Common Core of Data, Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey”, compiled from National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey. Retrieved September 25, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/ccd-school-directory/.

Cite National Center for Education Statistics directly for the figures themselves.