Boise School District Overview

For home buyers and home residents within the Boise School District, here is the good news: the Boise School District provides high-quality public school education to your kids and you will be impressed with its testing results when comparing with other districts in Idaho and even comparing nationally. In my opinion, Boise public schools are safe, fun and generally good.

Boise School District 2005-06 Profiles

Boise School District is the largest school district in the State of Idaho. Here are some stats: 2005-06 Fall enrollments: 25142. There are 34 elementary schools and 19 secondary schools; High school graduation completion rate 89%. Student Ethnicity profiles: White 85.56%, Black 2.2%, Hispanic 5.06%, Asian 3.6%.

Boise School District Fund Sources

Boise School District had a total funds of $216,937,919 with 61.6% of the revenues coming from local taxes, 36% from the State, 7.72% from Federal and 4.6% from other sources.

Boise School District Delivers Excellent results

Boise School District exceeds the Idaho State level of profficiency in reading and math. Our national goal is for all students in grades 3 through 8 and 10 to be proficient in reading and math by the spring of 2014. Idaho uses the Idaho Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) and the Idaho Alternate Assessment (IAA) to measure proficiency. The nation goal is 66% for reading Proficient and 51% for Math Proficient. Both Idaho State and Boise School District far exceeds the national goals. Specifically Idaho achieves 82.95% for reading proficient and 77.57% for math proficient; while Boise School District achieves 88.16% for reading proficient and 86.41% for math proficient.