The top reported proficiency rate is 37% in English language arts. The lowest is 21% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Blackfoot Charter Community Learning Center Inc.
Blackfoot Charter Community Learning Center is a single-school charter district in Blackfoot, Idaho, serving pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The enrollment is modest for its grade band, with roughly equal sized cohorts in most grades and a gradual taper in the upper grades. The student body is predominantly white, with a Hispanic population forming the next largest group, and small numbers of American Indian or Alaska Native students and students of two or more races. Asian, Black, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students are each present in very small numbers. We looked for free-or-reduced-price lunch data, special education counts, and English learner figures, but none were available, so those portions of the picture remain blank here.
On Idaho's ISAT, math proficiency starts low in the earliest tested grades and stays low through the middle grades, with one grade dipping further. The clearest shift comes in seventh and eighth grade, where proficiency rises to the district's strongest math results. This upward movement in the upper grades is the most consistent pattern in the math data. Even so, the overall math profile sits below what most Idaho families would associate with grade-level mastery, and a parent may want to look into the school's math curriculum and instructional approach further, particularly in the third-through-fifth grade band where results are weakest.
English language arts tells a somewhat different story. In the grades where results are reported, proficiency sits in a moderate range, with the sixth grade posting the strongest ELA result. Several ELA grade-level results were suppressed, meaning the state reported only a range rather than a point estimate, so a complete grade-by-grade picture is not available. What is visible suggests ELA is the relative bright spot, with more students meeting proficiency in language arts than in math at most comparable grade levels.
Science is tested only in fifth and eighth grade. Both show proficiency well below what the state considers on track, and the results are quite similar to each other across the two grades. This is a soft spot a parent may want to ask about directly, since the numbers suggest many students are not yet at grade-level benchmarks in science by the time they are assessed.
The district brief search turned up little in the way of recent curriculum changes, referenda, property-tax shifts, or other parent-relevant developments. Publicly available sources provided only basic enrollment, financial, and charter profile information. No locale brief or community economic context was available, so we cannot speak to housing values, rental costs, or broader town trends from the data provided.
Several categories that often help a parent round out a picture are missing here. There is no data on Title I status, discipline, course access, staffing ratios, attendance, or magnet or charter governance details beyond the entity's classification as a charter district. No program offerings were listed, so we cannot describe whether the school offers dual-credit pathways, career education, arts programming, or other enrichment. Civil-rights data was not provided. And because this entity does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report; that gap reflects the grade band served, not a missing or weak result.
What the available data does show is a small charter school with a relatively homogeneous student body for its region, struggling in math and science in the elementary years but showing gains in the upper-middle grades, and performing more consistently in English language arts. Families considering this school would benefit from asking directly about math and science instruction in the early grades, what happens between fifth and seventh grade that appears to lift math outcomes, and what program offerings or support services exist beyond what the state data captures.
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