The top reported proficiency rate is 18% in English language arts. The lowest is 10% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Elevate Academy East Idaho Llc
Elevate Academy East Idaho is a new free public charter school in Idaho Falls, opened in the fall of 2024. It is organized as its own charter district under state oversight. The school was built around a Career Technical Education model and serves students in the middle grades through early high school, with plans to expand one grade level at a time toward a full secondary span. For its first year it served grades six through ten, and publicly reported information indicates it is adding eleventh grade for the coming year. The school explicitly targets at-risk students, which shapes everything about how to read its early results.
The academic data from the first year is available but should be understood in context. This is a brand-new school serving a population it defines as at-risk, and these are first-year state assessment results. In math, proficiency was very low across all three tested grades. In English language arts, results were also low, with the strongest grade landing in the low twenties and the weakest in the single digits. Science proficiency for the one grade tested was similarly low. These are first-year numbers from a school that opened its doors months before testing, serving students who may have arrived behind grade level. A parent looking at these results should ask the school directly what its growth trajectory looks like and how it plans to support students toward proficiency, because a single year of baseline data from a new school for at-risk students does not establish a pattern.
What sets Elevate apart is its career-technical focus. The school offers industry-aligned pathways in Business and Marketing, Medical Arts, Cyber Security, Criminal Justice, Culinary, Construction, Precision Machining, and Welding. The stated expectation is that every student earns two industry certificates before completing the program. This is a hands-on, workforce-readiness model, not a traditional college-prep academic pathway. For families whose student has struggled in a conventional classroom setting or who wants a direct line from school to employable skills, this is the core value proposition. For families seeking a broad liberal-arts curriculum or a high AP course load, this is likely not the right fit.
Several categories of data were not available. Enrollment counts, demographic breakdowns, free-and-reduced-price lunch rates, English learner and special education figures, and staffing information were all missing from the provided data. No locale brief or community economic context was included, so there is no housing or neighborhood information to draw on here. No graduation rate exists yet because the school has not had a graduating class. No multi-year trend is meaningful with a single year of data. Discipline, attendance, and course-access details were also absent. These gaps are largely what you would expect from a first-year charter district that has not yet accumulated a reporting history.
No comparison fact-set or neighbor data was provided, so there is no way here to position Elevate against other Idaho Falls area districts or charters. The school's single campus is listed with a future lifecycle status in federal data, which aligns with its very recent opening.
The honest read is this. Elevate Academy East Idaho is a young, mission-driven school betting that career-technical education and industry certification can reengage students who have not thrived in traditional settings. Its first academic proficiency results are weak, which the school would likely frame as a starting point rather than a ceiling. Families considering it should visit, ask about academic support alongside the CTE pathways, and understand that this is a school still defining itself in its second year of operation. The industry-certification model and the breadth of trade and technical pathways are the strongest reasons to look further. The first-year test results are the strongest reason to ask hard questions about academic growth.
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