COMPASS ACADEMY
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IDAHO FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL → EMERSON HIGH SCHOOL → 3B JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER → CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTER → ALTURAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY → WHITE PINE CHARTER SCHOOL → LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL → BONNEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL →📋 At a glance
- 📚 6 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 2 calculus classes · 2 physics · 2 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 68th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 77th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 87% (Bottom 39% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How COMPASS ACADEMY compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 68th percentile nationally with 6 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyID students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: IDAHO FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, EMERSON HIGH SCHOOL, 3B JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
68th percentile nationally
✅ Gifted/talented program
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2177th percentile by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 39% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Targeted Assistance eligible
35-39% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Targeted Assistance
35-39% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The school can receive Title I funds targeted to identified students (not schoolwide).
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -3.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 393 students:
≈ 70 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $9,526 per student in district revenue, the 70 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $666,820/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IDAHO FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IDAHO FALLS |
Public | 0.8 | 1,298 | -0.2% |
| EMERSON HIGH SCHOOL IDAHO FALLS |
Public | 1.0 | 135 | +1.5% |
| 3B JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER IDAHO FALLS |
Public | 1.0 | 9 | — |
| CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTER IDAHO FALLS |
Public | 1.4 | 3 | — |
| ALTURAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY IDAHO FALLS |
Public · charter | 1.9 | 191 | +138.8% |
| WHITE PINE CHARTER SCHOOL AMMON |
Public · charter | 2.0 | 51 | — |
| LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL IDAHO FALLS |
Public | 2.3 | 110 | -0.9% |
| BONNEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL IDAHO FALLS |
Public | 2.7 | 1,176 | +7.7% |