The top reported proficiency rate is 72% in English language arts. The lowest is 57% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Falcon Ridge Public Charter School Inc.
Falcon Ridge Public Charter School is a single-school charter district in Idaho serving pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The enrollment is small, with roughly thirty students per grade in most classes, which gives the school an intimate feel but also means each grade's state test results rest on a small number of tested students. That is worth keeping in mind as you read the results, since a handful of students moving in or out of proficiency can shift a grade's numbers meaningfully.
The student body is predominantly white. A small number of Hispanic, Black, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and multiracial students round out the enrollment. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data, special education enrollment, and English learner figures were not available in the data we received, so we cannot speak to the school's socioeconomic profile or the share of students receiving specialized services. A parent evaluating fit may want to ask the school directly about those supports.
On Idaho's ISAT, Falcon Ridge shows a clear pattern: English language arts results are a consistent strength, while math results are more uneven. In ELA, proficiency rates across third, fourth, and fifth grade land in a solid range, and by eighth grade the share of students meeting proficiency is strong. Sixth and seventh grade ELA results were suppressed by the state, likely because of small subgroup sizes, so the only available reading is that proficiency fell somewhere in a wide range. The school does not publish enough detail for us to pin those down further.
Math tells a different story. Fourth grade stands out as a high point, with a large majority of tested students reaching proficiency. Third and sixth grade sit near the middle, while seventh and eighth grade math results drop, with fewer than half of tested students meeting proficiency in each. Science was tested in fifth and eighth grade, but both were suppressed to wide ranges, so we have no clear read on those outcomes. Taken together, the data suggests the school's younger elementary students are building strong literacy skills, and the ELA program sustains that strength into the upper grades. Math, by contrast, starts reasonably well in the lower grades but softens as students move through middle school. A parent whose child tends toward math may want to look into how the school structures its upper-grade math instruction and whether intervention supports are available.
Because Falcon Ridge stops at eighth grade, there is no graduation rate or high school course data to report. The district brief returned no parent-relevant changes, such as curriculum shifts, facility plans, or governance actions, so we have nothing to relay on that front. No locale brief, housing data, community context, or neighbor comparison was available for this entity, which means we cannot situate the school geographically or describe the surrounding area. Program offerings were not provided either, so we cannot characterize extracurriculars, specialist classes, or enrichment beyond what the test data implies.
What the available evidence does say is that Falcon Ridge is a small, homogeneous charter school with a genuinely strong English language arts program across most of the grade span it serves. Math is the area where results trail off, particularly in the upper grades. Families drawn to a small charter environment with tight grade-level cohorts may find the school appealing, particularly if literacy development is a priority. For families concerned about math preparation for high school, the questions to bring to the school are direct ones about curriculum, staffing, and middle-grade support.
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