The top reported proficiency rate is 61% in Math. The lowest is 53% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Taylors Crossing Charter School
Taylors Crossing Charter School is a single-site public charter in Idaho Falls serving prekindergarten through twelfth grade. It is a small school by design, with roughly two classrooms per grade in the elementary and middle years and a noticeably thinner high school cohort. The enrollment is predominantly white, with small Hispanic, Asian, and multiracial populations. The share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price meals is modest, well below what many Idaho charter and traditional schools report. The school operates under its own charter authorization rather than as part of a traditional district, so governance, admissions, and philosophy all flow from the charter itself. We looked for the school's strategic priorities or recent programmatic changes and found little that clears a lasting-impact bar, so we left that out rather than guess.
On Idaho's state assessments, the most complete picture comes from math. The early grades are strong. Third and fourth grade proficiency sits comfortably above where most Idaho schools land, and fifth grade holds close to that level. By sixth grade the results begin to soften. Seventh grade dips further, and eighth grade falls to a point where fewer than half of tested students reach proficiency. This is a clear downward trend as cohorts move through the upper grades, and a parent considering the middle-school years may want to look into this further with the school. The pattern could reflect curricular transitions, cohort effects in a small school, or other factors, but the data alone shows the decline.
English language arts results are largely suppressed for privacy reasons given the small grade-level counts, so there is no clean year-to-year read on most ELA grades. Third grade was reportable and landed in a middling range. Science results for the tested elementary and middle grades were also suppressed. This is a limitation of small-school data rather than a sign of weak performance. Average scale scores were not available across the board, and participation rates were missing from the dataset.
The school does not have a graduation rate in the provided data, and we found no AP, dual-credit, or career-pathway program listings. Course access, staffing ratios, discipline data, attendance figures, and civil-rights reporting were all absent from what we received. Special-population rates for students with individualized education programs and English learners were also missing. These are gaps a family would want to ask about directly, particularly if a child needs specialized services or advanced coursework. The high school grades serve relatively few students, and without program data it is hard to characterize the upper-school experience from the evidence available.
Idaho Falls itself is a regional hub for eastern Idaho and draws from parts of Wyoming and Montana. The economy shifted from its agricultural base toward Idaho National Laboratory and its contractors, which remain the dominant employer, and has since added substantial retail, medical, and restaurant sectors. The downtown sits along the Snake River with a river-walk trail system, a farmers' market, the Museum of Idaho, the Colonial Theatre, and other civic and cultural institutions. Residential neighborhoods extend outward from the historic core. The College of Eastern Idaho, the region's community college, operates locally, and university research facilities from several institutions sit just north of downtown. The city has grown steadily and continues to add development, including the Snake River Landing mixed-use project on the west side of the river.
Housing in the school's zip code sits below the Idaho state benchmark but above the national one, making it relatively moderate for the region. Rents are affordable compared with many western markets. The current mortgage environment carries rates in the mid-six range, so financing a home here is neither cheap nor unusually expensive by current standards.
Taken together, Taylors Crossing offers a small, continuous prekindergarten-through-twelve pathway in a mid-sized regional city with a stable employment base and moderate housing. Its youngest tested grades produce math results that stand out favorably. The middle-grade math decline is the clearest soft spot in the data. Families with children in the upper grades, or those needing specialized services or advanced courses, will want to ask the school directly about what the public data does not yet show.
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