Idaho public schools

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Historical data

Schools by type

This breakdown is from National Center for Education Statistics, on a different basis than the headline figure above. Number of Idaho public schools by NCES's own school type (Regular, Alternative, Special Education, Career and Technical), school year 2024-25.

• 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.

Schools by charter status

This breakdown is from National Center for Education Statistics, on a different basis than the headline figure above. Number of Idaho public schools NCES's directory flags as a charter school versus not, school year 2024-25.

• 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).

Schools by virtual status

This breakdown is from National Center for Education Statistics, on a different basis than the headline figure above. Number of Idaho public schools by NCES's virtual-instruction category, school year 2023-24, the newest year NCES collected this for Idaho.

• 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.

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.

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Cite this page as Understand Idaho, “Idaho public schools”, https://understandidaho.com/education/schools/, retrieved on the date you read it, and the publisher named above for the figures themselves. The dataset behind it is described in the data catalog.

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• Idaho public school enrollment
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