Public school / High
Independence Alternative High School
Blackfoot, Idaho
- NCES ID
- 160027000689
- District
- Blackfoot District
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Independence Alternative High School is a public high school in Blackfoot, Idaho, run by Blackfoot District. It enrols 169 students — the 81034th 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
169
Teachers
17.0
Students per teacher
9.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
59.2%
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 Blackfoot District
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.
- 1Blackfoot High School1,286 students
- 2Mountain View Middle School588 students
- 3I T Stoddard Elementary School406 students
- 4Ridge Crest Elementary School374 students
- 5Blackfoot Heritage Sixth Grade282 students
- 6Donald D Stalker Elementary258 students
- 7Groveland Elementary School246 students
- 8Wapello Elementary School226 students
- Enrollment−52.0%
- Teachers−10.5%
- Students per teacher−43.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+60.0%
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