The top reported proficiency rate is 79% in English language arts. The lowest is 74% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Thomas Jefferson Charter School Inc.
Thomas Jefferson Charter School Inc. operates as a single-school charter district in Idaho, serving students from kindergarten through twelfth grade. The enrollment is small for a full K-through-12 program, with each grade level carrying roughly two to three dozen students. This is a tight, continuous pathway under one roof, which is part of what draws families to charter schools of this size. A child can enter in kindergarten and stay through graduation without changing buildings.
The student body is predominantly white, with a substantial Hispanic presence making up nearly a third of enrollment. Other racial and ethnic groups are each represented by only a handful of students. Beyond race and ethnicity, the demographic picture thins out quickly. Free-or-reduced-price lunch counts were not reported, and data on students with individualized education programs or English learners was also missing. Without these figures, it is hard to gauge the full range of needs the school is serving or how it compares to surrounding districts on those dimensions. A parent considering this school may want to ask directly about special education services and English learner support, since the public data does not speak to them.
On state assessments, the picture is generally strong where results could be reported, though the small class sizes mean many grade-level scores are suppressed or published only as ranges to protect student privacy. In English language arts, the grades with reported point estimates show well over half and in some cases a large majority of students reaching proficiency. Fifth grade stands out as a particularly strong year in literacy. Math results follow a similar pattern, with the middle grades showing solid proficiency rates that appear to climb as students move from sixth into eighth grade. Science results for the tested elementary and middle grades were given only as wide ranges, so a clear read is harder, though the upper bounds of those ranges suggest some grades may be performing well. Idaho does report high school ISAT results, but none appeared in the data provided here, so we cannot characterize tenth-grade performance.
The multi-year trend data available was limited and did not allow a reliable read on whether performance is improving or declining over time. A parent wanting trend detail would need to go to the school or the state report card directly.
Several categories of information that parents often weigh were simply absent from the payload. No locale brief was provided, so there is no grounded description here of the surrounding community, housing market, or commute context. No housing values or rents were included. No comparison fact-set was available to position this charter district against its neighbors in the county. Program offerings, such as Advanced Placement, dual credit, or career-technical pathways, were not reported. Staffing ratios, attendance rates, and discipline data were all missing. Civil-rights data was not included. And no graduation rate was provided, which is a gap a parent of an older student would want to fill before deciding.
The district brief search turned up no recent parent-relevant changes or developments. That does not mean nothing is happening at the school, only that nothing surfaced in the research that cleared the bar for a lasting-impact update.
What the data does say is this: Thomas Jefferson Charter is a small, continuous K-through-12 charter school in Idaho with a relatively diverse student body for the state, and its tested elementary and middle grades show proficiency results that are generally strong, especially in literacy. The gaps in the publicly available data are wide enough that a family would want to supplement this picture with a direct conversation with the school before making a decision. Questions about high school academics, graduation, special populations, and the surrounding community are fair ones to bring.
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