{
 "dataset": {
  "id": "osbe-factbook",
  "sourceId": "idaho-osbe",
  "name": "Fall Snapshot Postsecondary Enrollment",
  "description": "Idaho's public postsecondary system-wide fall enrollment headcount, by year, across the four public four-year institutions and the public community colleges.",
  "url": "https://boardofed.idaho.gov/research-data/enrollment-snapshots/",
  "methodologyUrl": "https://boardofed.idaho.gov/research-data/enrollment-snapshots/",
  "dataUrl": "https://boardofed.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/PSR1_FallSnapshot_2025_Headcount.pdf",
  "geography": "Idaho (statewide)",
  "timeCoverage": "2011-2025",
  "updateFrequency": "Annual",
  "publisherUpdated": "2026-07",
  "retrieved": "2026-09-08",
  "license": "Public domain. State of Idaho government work.",
  "ingestion": "scripts/fetch-osbe-factbook.py",
  "caveats": [
   "value is headcount (a physical person, not full-time-equivalent), summed across Boise State University, Idaho State University, University of Idaho, Lewis-Clark State College, and the public community colleges (College of Southern Idaho, College of Western Idaho, North Idaho College, and College of Eastern Idaho once it opened).",
   "In fall 2012 the enrollment census date changed from the 10th day of the term to October 15; OSBE's own workbook flags 2012 with an asterisk for this reason but does not restate earlier years to the new date.",
   "Private and out-of-state institutions, and Idaho's professional-technical-only enrollment reported separately from academic headcount, are not included.",
   "An OSBE 'go-on rate' report (the share of Idaho high school graduates enrolling in postsecondary within a year) was searched for but not found as a downloadable, multi-year table: the dedicated boardofed.idaho.gov/resources/go-on-rates/ page now redirects to a generic postsecondary-programs page, a site search for 'go-on rate' returns no results, and the page's own linked attachment (Go-on-rates.pdf, recovered from the Wayback Machine since the live file now 404s) is a bar-chart image of 1-year go-on rates by race/ethnicity for 2011-2015 with no embedded data table or overall statewide figure. Two related research briefs (a 2015 gender-gap analysis and a 2016 cohort-graduation-rate analysis) are similarly chart-only and not current. education.go_on_rate is not pulled for this reason."
  ],
  "metrics": [
   {
    "id": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
    "name": "Public postsecondary enrollment",
    "unit": "people",
    "description": "Idaho public postsecondary system-wide fall enrollment headcount, by year.",
    "aggregation": "level"
   }
  ]
 },
 "observations": [
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2011",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 71427,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2012",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 78288,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2013",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 74992,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2014",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 75874,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2015",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 72360,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2016",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 74632,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2017",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 76014,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2018",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 77221,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2019",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 78918,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2020",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 74779,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2021",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 78295,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2022",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 78601,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2023",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 80922,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2024",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 85477,
   "status": "final"
  },
  {
   "metric": "education.higher_ed_enrollment",
   "geo": "16",
   "period": "2025",
   "periodType": "year",
   "value": 89073,
   "status": "final"
  }
 ]
}