WEST JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL
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JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL → CLARK COUNTY JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL → RIGBY HIGH SCHOOL → AMERICAN HERITAGE CHARTER SCHOOL → SKYLINE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL → MADISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL → 3B JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER → CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTER →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 1 calculus classes
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 29% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 57th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 95% (75th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How WEST JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL compares for families
What families should know about WEST JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL.
- ▸ LocallyID students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL, CLARK COUNTY JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL, RIGBY HIGH SCHOOL and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Limited — narrow advanced curriculum
Bottom 29% of US high schools
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 · 2020-2157th 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?
75th percentile nationally
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 Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
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 +2.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 204 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $11,799 per student in district revenue, the 30 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $353,970/year in additional funding.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL MENAN |
Public | 23.7 | 99 | +28.6% |
| CLARK COUNTY JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL DUBOIS |
Public | 25.3 | 28 | — |
| RIGBY HIGH SCHOOL RIGBY |
Public | 28.0 | 2,040 | +5.6% |
| AMERICAN HERITAGE CHARTER SCHOOL IDAHO FALLS |
Public · charter | 30.1 | 90 | +23.3% |
| SKYLINE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IDAHO FALLS |
Public | 30.8 | 1,336 | +0.6% |
| MADISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL REXBURG |
Public | 31.0 | 1,299 | +2.8% |
| 3B JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER IDAHO FALLS |
Public | 31.0 | 9 | — |
| CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTER IDAHO FALLS |
Public | 31.2 | 3 | — |