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Idaho school district enrollment

Idaho public school fall membership (headcount) by district or charter school and by grade, and the same for charter schools alone, both compiled by the State Department of Education back to the mid-1990s.

Figures

Public school enrollment, 1995 to 2025Public school enrollment, 1995 to 2025. Idaho: 243,097 in 1995, 314,063 in 2025.0100k200k300k400k20002020IdahoPeoplePublic school enrollment, 1995 to 2025Public school enrollment, 1995 to 2025. Idaho: 243,097 in 1995, 314,063 in 2025.0100k200k300k400k200020102020IdahoPeoplePublic school enrollment, 1995 to 2025Public school enrollment, 1995 to 2025. Idaho: 243,097 in 1995, 314,063 in 2025.0100k200k300k400k200020102020IdahoPeople

Source: Idaho State Department of Education, Historical Fall Enrollment. Data period 2025. Published .

MeasureValuePeriod
Public school enrollment2025314,0632025
Charter school enrollment202542,9422025

Pages built on this dataset

Publisher

Organization
Idaho State Department of Education
Publisher’s dataset
Historical Fall Enrollment
File or API used
https://www.sde.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Historical-Enrollment-by-District-or-Charter.xlsx
Methodology
https://www.sde.idaho.gov/finance-transparency/public-school-finance/

Coverage

Geography
Idaho (statewide)
Time coverage
1995 to 2025; each measure's own span is in its description
Update frequency
Annual
Published
July 2026
Retrieved
September 8, 2026
License of the records
Public domain. State of Idaho government work.
Rows
4,760 observations, 1995-2025

Measures

MeasureWhat it measuresUnit
Public school enrollmentIdaho statewide fall public school enrollment (non-weighted membership headcount), by school year. The period is the calendar year the school year begins in (2024 for school year 2024-25). Available from school year 1995-96 on.people
Charter school enrollmentIdaho statewide fall charter school enrollment (non-weighted membership headcount), by school year; already included within the statewide public school enrollment total above. Period is the calendar year the school year begins in. Available from school year 1997-98 on.people
Enrollment by district or charterIdaho fall public school enrollment (non-weighted membership headcount) by local education agency (school district or charter school) and school year, category the LEA name as the department's workbook prints it. Period is the calendar year the school year begins in. Available from school year 1995-96 on.people

Caveats

  • Membership counts enrollment as of the first day of October, or the nearest prior school day; a student enrolled in two LEAs is counted in each.
  • Charter enrollment is already included in the statewide total. From 2018 on, the statewide total is the sum of every district and charter LEA's membership; for 1995 to 2017 SDE's own LEA rows differ from its printed state total, by up to 6,171 students (1996) and by under 400 from 2004 on.
  • Two LEA blocks in SDE's workbook carry no name (The Village Charter School, 2011 to 2023; Upper Carmen Public Charter, 2015 to 2023); each is named by matching its figures to SDE's charter enrollment workbook.
  • Period is the calendar year the school year begins in; period 2024 is school year 2024-25.
  • No district-to-county crosswalk exists in SDE's workbooks, so only statewide totals are published here.
  • Category is the LEA name as SDE prints it in each year, not normalized or merged across years even when an LEA was renamed.
  • Charter totals for 2012-13 (18,781.5), 2013-14 (19,366.5) and 2014-15 (19,700.38) carry a fractional count, from a school counted at partial-year FTE; kept as printed.

Where sources disagree

  • Public school enrollment, Idaho, 2022: the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) publishes 317,555. NCES Digest of Education Statistics table 208.40 (fall 2022 state enrollment, from the Common Core of Data State Nonfiscal survey) reports 317,555 for Idaho, versus the department's own fall 2022 membership count of 318,979. The department's count is the state's fall school membership; NCES's figure is the state-reported total it compiles for that survey year, which can differ slightly in scope or count date.

How to cite

Understand Idaho, “Historical Fall Enrollment”, compiled from Idaho State Department of Education, Historical Fall Enrollment. Retrieved September 8, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/sde-enrollment/.

Cite Idaho State Department of Education directly for the figures themselves.

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