The top reported proficiency rate is 21% in English language arts. The lowest is 9% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Elevate Academy Nampa Llc
Elevate Academy Nampa is a single-school charter district in Idaho, opened in 2022 and serving grades six through eleven, with plans to extend through twelfth. The school is built around Career Technical Education, and its program model is the clearest thing about it. Students choose from tracks in Medical Arts, Criminal Justice, Business and Marketing, Culinary, Welding, Construction, Computer Programming, and Small Engine Mechanics. The expectation, as publicly reported by the school, is that every student earns two industry certificates and a workforce readiness certificate by graduation. That is an unusually concrete career-preparation promise for a secondary school and gives Elevate a distinct identity among Idaho charters. The school describes itself as community-driven and focused on at-risk students.
The enrollment is moderate for a charter of this grade band, with students distributed fairly evenly across grades, the largest cohorts in the upper grades. The student body is majority white with a substantial Hispanic share, and small counts in other racial categories. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not available, which is a gap worth naming plainly because the school self-identifies as serving at-risk students and the absence of economic-disadvantage data makes it harder to assess that mission. IEP and English-learner counts were also missing, so the full picture of special populations is not available here.
State assessment results from the 2024-25 school year paint a sobering picture in core academics. In math, proficiency was low across all three tested grades, with sixth and eighth grade reported in a range that lands at the bottom, and seventh grade only modestly above that. ELA results were somewhat stronger but still modest, with seventh grade the brightest spot and sixth and eighth grade trailing. Science proficiency in eighth grade was very low. Average scale scores were not reported for any subject or grade, and participation rates were missing, so there are limits to what these results can tell a parent beyond the proficiency rates themselves. A parent weighing this school will want to look into how the school supports students reading and doing math below grade level, and whether the CTE focus comes with dedicated academic intervention. The school is still young, having opened in 2022, and the assessment data reflects an early stage of operation.
There is no graduation rate to report because the school does not yet serve twelfth grade, though it is expanding in that direction. No high school state testing data appears for grades nine through eleven in this dataset, so the academic picture is limited to the middle grades.
The district brief notes that Elevate is expanding capacity for the 2026-2027 school year, with new seats available through a lottery process. That growth, coming a few years after founding, suggests the school is drawing interest, though the data provided does not speak to waitlist depth or demand beyond the lottery itself.
Several categories parents might look for are absent from the available data. No locale brief, housing context, or community economic profile was provided, so there is nothing here about the surrounding area or cost of living. No neighbor comparison fact-set was available to position Elevate against other Idaho districts or charters. Civil-rights data, course-access details beyond the CTE tracks, staffing ratios, attendance figures, and discipline data were all missing. Rather than guess at any of these, the gaps are named as gaps.
What a parent can take from this is a school with a clearly defined career-technical mission and an unusually broad set of CTE pathways for its age and size, serving a student population that skews toward students who may have struggled in traditional settings. The academic proficiency numbers are low, and the school is early enough in its life that those numbers may reflect the students it serves and the time it has had to work with them. The career-preparation structure is the school's defining offer, and for a family whose teenager responds better to hands-on, work-oriented learning than to a conventional academic track, that structure may carry real weight. The question worth bringing directly to the school is how it balances its CTE mission with the academic growth its current test results indicate students still need.
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