Pocatello District, ID - District Data

Original Research by School Decision on Pocatello District

Pocatello-Chubbuck School District 25 serves the neighboring communities of Pocatello and Chubbuck in Bannock County, Idaho, along with a small reach toward Inkom to the south. The two main towns sit close together but differ in character. Chubbuck is the more residential and commercially growing of the pair, while Pocatello carries the weight of a regional hub, home to Idaho State University and a stretch of older neighborhoods. Housing values across the district run below the Idaho state benchmark and sit right around the national figure, with Chubbuck pulling the weighted average upward and the Pocatello zip codes offering more affordable entry points. Rents are modest by national standards. For families, the practical takeaway is that buying or renting within this district is more attainable than in much of Idaho, and the choice of zip code will shape both housing cost and which elementary school a child attends.

The district recently redrew its elementary attendance boundaries to balance enrollment and capacity across schools. Publicly reported information from the district describes this as a trustee-approved process tied to address. For a family choosing where to live, this redistricting is worth checking directly, since the school assignment for a given street may have shifted from what older neighbors remember.

The district operates a broad set of schools: well over a dozen elementary buildings, several middle schools, three traditional high schools, an alternative high school, a technical and career center, a preschool center, and a juvenile detention education program. One middle school, Kinport, is listed as inactive. This range gives the district the capacity to serve the full grade span from prekindergarten through twelfth, and the presence of a dedicated technical and career center is a real strength for students who want a vocational or applied pathway alongside the traditional high schools.

Academic results from the 2024-25 Idaho ISAT tell a mixed but informative story. In English language arts, proficiency sits around the midpoint of the scale in the early elementary grades and then climbs steadily through middle school, with seventh and eighth grade reaching the district's strongest results. That upward trajectory in ELA is a genuinely encouraging pattern. Math tells a different story. Proficiency starts higher in third and fourth grade, then drops through the middle grades and settles in a lower band. Science results, available only for fifth and eighth grade, land in that same lower band. A parent watching their child move from elementary to middle school may want to look into how the district supports math instruction during that transition, since the data suggests the later grades are where the district's academic challenge is most concentrated.

The district has made a publicly reported commitment to two pedagogical frameworks: Visible Learning and Restorative Practices. Visible Learning shifts attention from what students are learning to how they learn, making the learning process itself visible to students and teachers. Restorative Practices are used district-wide to build relationships and strengthen school community. These are stated priorities, and a family visiting a school would do well to ask how they show up in the daily classroom.

On student demographics, the district is predominantly white, with a Hispanic population that represents the largest non-white group and a small presence of American Indian or Alaska Native students and students of two or more races. Several pieces of data the district does not provide here include free or reduced-price lunch counts, English learner rates, and special education rates. Graduation rate data was also not available in what we received, and no comparison fact-set positioning this district among its Bannock County neighbors was provided, so we cannot place its performance against nearby districts from this data. The absence of those figures limits the picture a family can draw, but the state assessment results and the district's own program descriptions give a grounded starting point for asking good questions.

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District Context

Officially reported figures, 2024-25.

Enrollment

11,908

Grades

PK–12

Schools

Student body

Hispanic 14%

Black 1%

White 76%

Asian 1%

Two+ 4%

Am. Indian / AK Native 4%

Hawaiian / Pac. Isl. 0%

Schools in this District

25 schools are officially reported under this district.

POCATELLO JUVENILE DETENTION

CHUBBUCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CLAUDE A WILCOX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

EDAHOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

NEW HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL

FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL

GREENACRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HAWTHORNE MIDDLE SCHOOL

HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL

INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

IRVING MIDDLE SCHOOL

JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LEWIS & CLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

POCATELLO HIGH SCHOOL

LINCOLN PRESCHOOL CENTER

SYRINGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

TENDOY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

TYHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GATE CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CENTURY HIGH SCHOOL

RULON M ELLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

KINPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL

PORTEUF VALLEY TECHNICAL AND CAREER CENTER

ALAMEDA MIDDLE SCHOOL

Academic Performance

Percent of students meeting or exceeding state standards, by grade.

Mathematics

6 grades reported

54%

Grade 3

53%

Grade 4

46%

Grade 5

42%

Grade 6

48%

Grade 7

44%

Grade 8

English Language Arts

6 grades reported

51%

Grade 3

49%

Grade 4

52%

Grade 5

55%

Grade 6

63%

Grade 7

62%

Grade 8

Science

2 grades reported

44%

Grade 5

46%

Grade 8

Housing & Real Estate

Data as of April 2026 | District-weighted from constituent ZIP codes

Home Values

Typical home value$367,123

Year-over-year change+0.5%

Range across 4 ZIP codes$331K to $495K

vs. state typical0.77x

vs. national typical1.00x

Home value trend (12 months)

ZIP code home values (4 ZIP codes)

ZIP	City	Value	YoY	Weight
83202	Chubbuck	$396K	+0.8%	53.8%
83204	Pocatello	$331K	-0.2%	33.6%
83201	Pocatello	$336K	+0.7%	12.2%
83245	Inkom	$495K	+0.9%	0.3%

Rental Market

Typical monthly rent$1,175/mo

Year-over-year change+1.1%

Range across 3 ZIP codes$984 to $1,304/mo

Rent trend (12 months)

ZIP code rents (3 ZIP codes)

ZIP	City	Rent/mo	YoY	Weight
83202	Chubbuck	$1,304	+0.3%	53.8%
83204	Pocatello	$984	+1.6%	33.6%
83201	Pocatello	$1,129	+3.3%	12.2%

Affordability

Est. monthly mortgage (20% down at 6.48%)$1,853/mo

Home price / national median income4.4x

Annual rent / national median income16.8%

Est. mortgage exceeds rent by$678/mo

Comparison

State typical home value$477,506 (+1.1% YoY)

National typical home value$368,198 (+0.6% YoY)

State ZHVI trend (12 months)

National ZHVI trend (12 months)

Economic Context

30-year fixed mortgage rate6.48%

National unemployment rate4.3%

National median household income$83,730

CPI: Rent of shelter (index)447.05

30-year fixed mortgage rate (12 months)

National unemployment rate (12 months)

National median household income (12 months)

CPI: Rent of shelter (index) (12 months)

Sources: Zillow Home Value Index and Zillow Observed Rent Index (Zillow Group), Realtor.com via Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)

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Civil Rights Data (CRDC)

This profile is derived exclusively from publicly available federal and state datasets. It may not reflect the most current information available. We encourage parents and families to supplement this data with information published directly on the school’s website, which may include more recent figures, additional programs, or updated enrollment data.