Original Research by School Decision on Ada County Juvenile Center
Ada County Juvenile Center is an alternative school on Denton Street in Boise, serving grades five through twelve. It operates within the Boise Independent District. The enrollment is very small, with a handful of students concentrated in the upper middle and high school grades. The student body includes White and Hispanic students. No free-or-reduced-price lunch, special education, or English learner figures were available in the data provided.
This is a juvenile justice facility, which places it outside the typical school profile in important ways. State assessment results in math, English language arts, and science were missing or suppressed across the board, and participation rates were not reported. Tested-student counts were suppressed, which often reflects privacy protections applied when very few students sit for an exam. A parent or guardian looking into this school should understand that the absence of proficiency data here is a function of the school's alternative, special-population setting rather than an indicator of academic quality. No trend data was available either. There was also no graduation rate reported, which is consistent with the school's role: it serves a transient population, and in the current year no twelfth-grade students were enrolled. Civil rights data, course access details, staffing figures, attendance records, and discipline information were not provided.
The school sits in Boise, Idaho's capital and largest city. Boise functions as a government center, a technology hub, and a residential city. Major employers headquartered or based here include Micron Technology, Albertsons, Boise Cascade, J.R. Simplot Company, and IDACORP, which is the parent of Idaho Power. State government is one of the city's largest
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