Public school / Primary
Morley Nelson Elementary
Boise, Idaho
- NCES ID
- 160036000980
- District
- Boise Independent District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Morley Nelson Elementary is a public primary school in Boise, Idaho, run by Boise Independent District. It enrols 459 students — the 42628th 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
459
Teachers
26.0
Students per teacher
17.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
98.9%
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 Boise Independent 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.
- 1Boise Senior High School1,588 students
- 2Timberline High School1,398 students
- 3Borah Senior High School1,289 students
- 4Capital Senior High School1,220 students
- 5North Junior High School876 students
- 6West Junior High804 students
- 7Les Bois Junior High School705 students
- 8Fairmont Junior High School677 students
- Enrollment+30.4%
- Teachers+36.8%
- Students per teacher+1.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+167.3%
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