The top reported proficiency rate is 62% in Science. The lowest is 52% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Monroe Elementary School
Monroe Elementary School sits on Cassia Street in Boise, part of the Boise Independent District, and serves pre-kindergarten through sixth grade as a regular public school. The school draws from Idaho's capital and largest city, a place where state government, technology employers, food-processing companies, and established residential neighborhoods coexist. Boise has absorbed steady in-migration over recent years, with publicly reported technology investment from Micron Technology and other firms driving expansion across the broader Treasure Valley metro area.
The school's enrollment is small for a campus covering pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. Its student body is predominantly white, with a smaller Hispanic presence and a few students from other racial and ethnic backgrounds. About a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on individualized education programs and English learner status was not reported, so those pieces of the student-support picture are absent here. The school's Title I status, locale classification, staffing ratios, attendance figures, and discipline data were also not available in this dataset.
On the most recent Idaho ISAT, results land in a middling range with some variation across grades. In English language arts, third-grade proficiency sits below the halfway mark, fourth grade rises to roughly two-thirds of students proficient, fifth grade holds a majority, and sixth grade settles back to about half. Math follows a flatter pattern: third grade at roughly half proficient and sixth grade at half, while fourth- and fifth-grade math results were suppressed in the state data. Suppression at those grades typically reflects small tested populations, so a parent should read the absence as an unreported figure rather than a weak one. Science, tested only in fifth grade, showed a majority of students proficient.
Average scale scores and participation rates were not reported for any grade or subject, which means there is no deeper diagnostic layer to draw from in this data. Multi-year trend data was present but appeared inconsistent and could not be read as a reliable trajectory. A parent may want to ask the school directly about the suppressed math results and about how early-grade literacy support works, since third-grade ELA is the weakest reported point.
Because Monroe serves only elementary grades, there is no graduation rate to report. No program offerings, course-access data, or extracurricular descriptions were included in what we received. The district brief turned up little on recent parent-relevant changes in Boise Independent District, so we have nothing to pass along on that front. No neighbor comparison was available to position Monroe against nearby schools in the county.
The housing market around the school adds context for families thinking about putting down roots. Home values in the school's zip code sit below the statewide benchmark but above the national one, and have been roughly flat over the past year. Rents have climbed more sharply in the same period. With prevailing mortgage rates, the estimated monthly cost of owning runs well above what renting costs in the area, a gap worth weighing for families deciding between buying and leasing near the school.
Boise's downtown core offers a walkable concentration of restaurants, retail, and cultural venues, according to publicly reported sources. The Boise River Greenbelt threads through the city as an extensive trail system. Outside that core, the city is largely auto-oriented, with suburban-style development in foothills and outer areas. Boise State University's campus sits adjacent to downtown, and the Idaho State Capitol, Boise Art Museum, and Julia Davis Park cluster nearby. These are the amenities a family in this part of Boise would access, though the school's specific neighborhood setting was not classified in the data we received.
Monroe Elementary is a small, conventional public school in a growing capital city. Its academic results are adequate in places and soft in others, with enough gaps in the state and district data to limit the full picture. For a family on Boise's south side looking for a manageable-size elementary with standard public-school programming, it is a reasonable starting point, with questions worth bringing directly to the school.
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