Public school / High
Central Academy High School
Meridian, Idaho
- NCES ID
- 160210000903
- District
- Joint School District No. 2
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Central Academy High School is a public high school in Meridian, Idaho, run by Joint School District No. 2. It enrols 151 students — the 82724th largest of 813 public schools in Idaho.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
151
Teachers
13.0
Students per teacher
11.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
17.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Joint School District No. 2
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Mountain View High School2,462 students
- 2Centennial High School1,931 students
- 3Rocky Mountain High School1,917 students
- 4Eagle High School1,802 students
- 5Meridian High School1,783 students
- 6Owyhee High School1,773 students
- 7Meridian Middle School1,078 students
- 8Lake Hazel Middle School1,065 students
- Enrollment−57.1%
- Teachers−31.6%
- Students per teacher−33.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−51.6%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory