Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 6

Basin Elementary School, Idaho City, ID

Basin Elementary School is a public elementary school in Idaho City, part of Basin School District. It enrolled 173 students in 2024-25, with 13.3 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "BASIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 173
Teachers (FTE): 13.0
Students per teacher: 13.3
Grades: PK to 6

This school's ratio is 1.3 higher than the district figure of 12.0. The Idaho average across schools is 18.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school13.3

District12.0

Idaho18.3

United States15.3

School details

Address: 101 North Elk Creek Road, Idaho City, ID 83631
Phone: (208)392-6631
District: Basin School District
County: Boise County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Locale: Rural: Distant
NCES school ID: 160018000334

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 66
Reduced-price lunch: 12
Free or reduced-price lunch: 7845.1% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 50Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.