The reported proficiency rate for Math is 60%.
Original Research by School Decision on Palouse Prairie Charter School
Palouse Prairie Charter School is a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade public charter school in Moscow, Idaho, operated by the Palouse Prairie Educational Organization. It is a small school by design, with roughly two dozen students per grade in the elementary years and modestly smaller cohorts in the middle grades. The student body is predominantly white, with small representations of Hispanic, Asian, American Indian or Alaska Native, and multiracial students. A notably small share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, well below what many public schools serve. The school did not report IEP or English-learner figures, so those populations are not visible in the data provided.
Moscow is a college town built around the University of Idaho, the state's flagship land-grant institution. Publicly reported sources describe the university as the city's dominant employer and a major research engine for the state. The campus sits in the Palouse hills, separate from but adjacent to a compact downtown core at the crossing of US-95 and ID-8. A farmer's market operates downtown, and Paradise Creek flows through the city from Moscow Mountain to the northeast. The Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport sits a short drive west. The city blends campus life with small-town residential streets and serves as an agricultural and commercial hub for the surrounding Palouse region. No walkability score or transit detail was found in the available search results, and little turned up on public parks or the local library, so those gaps stand open rather than filled with guesses.
Housing in the school's zip code runs somewhat above the Idaho state benchmark and well above the national figure, with rents that reflect a college-town rental market. A family buying here faces mortgage rates in line with the current national environment. The housing data suggests a community where homeownership is attainable for many but not inexpensive, and the rental market is shaped partly by university demand.
On state assessments, the picture is partial. The school takes the Idaho ISAT in math, English language arts, and science. In math, fourth-grade proficiency was solidly above half, and fifth-grade proficiency was in a similar range. Third-grade math was reported only as a range, with the upper bound suggesting a reasonably strong result but the lower bound leaving uncertainty. Sixth- and eighth-grade math results were missing, and seventh-grade was suppressed, likely reflecting small cohort sizes. In English language arts, third, fourth, and fifth grades were all reported as ranges rather than point estimates, again a pattern consistent with small tested groups. Sixth- and eighth-grade ELA were missing, and seventh-grade was suppressed. Science was tested only in fifth and eighth grades. Fifth-grade science was reported as a wide range, with a modest proficient count, and eighth-grade science was missing. The small cohorts make year-to-year comparisons and grade-level precision difficult, and several results are suppressed or missing for reasons that likely stem from the school's size rather than from performance.
Because Palouse Prairie ends at eighth grade, there is no graduation rate, no AP or dual-credit data, and no high school course access information. Those gaps reflect the grade band, not an omission. No civil-rights data, discipline figures, staffing detail, attendance data, or program offerings were provided. No neighbor comparison was available to position the school against nearby districts or charters. The district brief returned no parent-relevant changes, and publicly reported searches found no evidence of recent curriculum, pedagogy, or facilities shifts worth noting.
What a parent can take from this is a small, choice-based K-8 charter in a university town, with a student body that is less economically diverse than many public schools and test results that are encouraging where they are visible but often incomplete because of small numbers. Families considering this school may want to ask the administration directly about middle-grade assessment results, special education and English-learner services, and the transition path into Moscow's high schools, since none of that appears in the available data.
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