The top reported proficiency rate is 45% in Math. The lowest is 38% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on The Pocatello Community Charter School Inc.
The Pocatello Community Charter School Inc. operates as a single-school charter district in Idaho, serving prekindergarten through eighth grade. The enrollment is small for a district, with students spread fairly evenly across the elementary and middle grades. The student body is predominantly white, with a small Hispanic presence and a handful of students from other racial and ethnic backgrounds. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data, special-education rates, and English-learner counts were all missing from the available information, so the economic and linguistic profile of the student population is something a parent would need to ask the school about directly. No community or economic context, housing data, or locale brief was provided for this entity, so there is no basis here to describe the surrounding neighborhood or housing market.
Academic results come from the most recent Idaho ISAT administration. In math, fourth graders showed the strongest performance, with a majority of tested students reaching proficiency. Seventh graders were close behind at a solid level. Sixth-grade math proficiency was lower, and fifth-grade results were reported only in a suppressed range, meaning the state withheld a precise figure, likely because of small subgroup sizes. Third- and eighth-grade math results were also suppressed. The pattern in math is mixed across grades, with some grades performing well and others below where a family might hope, and the suppression of several grades makes a complete picture difficult.
English language arts results followed a similar mixed trajectory. Third and fourth grades landed in a moderate range, with roughly a third to two-fifths of students proficient. Fifth-grade ELA was the weakest reported grade. Seventh grade rebounded to the strongest ELA result, with nearly half of tested students proficient. Sixth- and eighth-grade ELA results were suppressed. Science was tested only in fifth and eighth grades, and both were reported as suppressed ranges, so there is little to characterize there beyond the fact that the state did not release precise figures.
Several grades had their results suppressed across subjects. This is common for small schools and charter districts where individual grade-level cohorts are tiny, and a reader should not read suppression as a sign of poor performance. It simply means the state did not publish a point estimate, likely to protect student privacy.
Because the school ends at eighth grade, there is no graduation rate to report. No Advanced Placement, dual-credit, or career-pathway program data was available. Staffing, discipline, attendance, and course-access information were also absent from the provided data. The district brief noted that a search for recent parent-relevant changes turned up only basic directory and demographic information, with no lasting changes identified from the recent period. No civil-rights data, neighbor comparison, or program offerings were provided.
What the available evidence shows is a small charter district with modest, uneven academic results across grade levels. Some grades performed reasonably well on the ISAT, particularly in seventh-grade ELA and fourth-grade math, while other grades were clearly lower. The school's small size means class cohorts are intimate, and several grade-level results are suppressed for privacy reasons. Families considering this school would benefit from asking about the missing economic and demographic data, the approach to math instruction in the lower-performing grades, and what the school offers beyond what state testing captures.
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