Meridian Joint School District Overview

Meridian Joint School District has experienced a 50% increase of student enrollments over the last 10 years and is expected to add another 15000 students over the next decade. This school district include around 12,000 platted home sites. The whole Meridian, Eagle, Star and part of Boise residential areas are assigned for Meridian Joint School District.

Meridian public school district is probably the fastest growing public school districts in Idaho due the rare high population expansiion. Home owners and residents in Meridian should be very proud of their well-run school district. In my opinion, living in Meridian and taking advange of its public school education for kids is a very wise choise when you try to buy into the Greater Boise area (Treasure Vally areas of Idaho. Here are some quick facts about the Meridian School District:

• Since 2000 the district has built 7 elementary schools
• Enrollment has increased 50% in the past 8 years
• The district's 262 buses travel more than 3 million miles each year
• The district has 28 elementary schools, 8 middle schools, and 7 high schools
• Nearly 32,000 students attend Joint School District No. 2 schools

Meridian Joint School District 2005-06 Profiles

Meridian Joint School District is a well-run school district in Idaho. Here are some stats: 2005-06 Fall enrollments: 29,939. It has the highest student attendance rate (that should tell you something!). There are 26 elementary schools and 16 secondary schools; High school graduation completion rate 90%. Student Ethnicity profiles: White 90.28%, Black 1.57%, Hispanic 4.66%, Asian 2.74%.

Meridian Joint School District Fund Sources

Meridian Joint School District had a total funds of $369,572,539 with 17.84% of the revenues coming from local taxes, 30% from the State, 2.96% from Federal and 49.2% from other sources.

Meridian Joint School District Delivers Excellent results

Meridian School District far 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 Meridian Joint School District far exceeds the national goals. Specifically Idaho achieves 82.95% for reading proficient and 77.57% for math proficient; while Meridian Joint School District achieves 89.59% for reading proficient and 86.48% for math proficient.

Here is the complete list of elementary Schools, Junior high schools and senior high schools within Meridian Joint School District:

Elementary Schools

High Schools

If you want to know more about the above Meridian District schools or how they compare with each other, Call me (208)991-2221 or Email me! I LOVE TO HELP YOU!