The reported proficiency rate for Math is 42%.
Original Research by School Decision on Mount Hall Elementary School
Mount Hall Elementary sits in Bonners Ferry, the county seat of Boundary County, Idaho, and serves kindergarten through fifth grade as part of the Boundary County School District. It is a small school by any measure, with grade-level cohorts small enough that the state suppresses most of its assessment results for privacy.
The student body is predominantly white, with small numbers of American Indian or Alaska Native, Hispanic, Black, and multiracial students. Half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on individualized education programs and English learner status was not available, so those shares cannot be described here.
Bonners Ferry grew out of a river crossing for gold prospectors and developed into a lumbering and farming community. The downtown along Main Street retains its early twentieth century brick buildings and has seen recent revitalization with pedestrian-friendly street upgrades, improved parking, and the Gateway Visitor Center, which serves as a civic gathering point. The Kootenai River runs through town, and the surrounding Kootenai Valley supports agriculture including hops, wheat, canola, and nursery trees. Nearby mountains provide timber and outdoor recreation, with National Forest lands offering camping, hiking, fishing, skiing, and snowmobiling. The Kootenai Reservation is located near town, relevant context for the small American Indian or Alaska Native student presence. The town has experienced modest growth, though no major new housing developments were identified in publicly reported sources.
On state assessments, the picture is limited. The school's small grade-level cohorts mean that most proficiency results were suppressed for privacy and reported only as wide ranges rather than precise figures. Third grade math had a concrete proficiency rate reported, and fewer than half of tested students reached proficiency. All other grade-level results in math, English language arts, and science were reported as ranges, which reflects the uncertainty that comes with small tested groups. A parent may want to ask the school directly about grade-level performance trends, since the published data alone does not give a clear read.
A multi-year trend series was present for English language arts but swung widely across the available data points, which is characteristic of very small cohorts where a few students moving in or out of proficiency changes the picture sharply. No reliable trend conclusion can be drawn from it.
The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report. This is expected for an elementary school and does not reflect a gap. No civil rights data, course access information, discipline data, staffing figures, or attendance metrics were available. Title I status was also not reported. A parent evaluating Mount Hall would need to contact the school or district directly for details on staffing ratios, special education services, and program offerings.
The housing market in the school's zip code sits just below the Idaho state benchmark for typical home values and well above the national one. The price-to-income ratio runs higher than the national reference point, and estimated monthly mortgage costs exceed local rents by a meaningful gap. Renting requires less income relative to housing costs than buying does, worth noting for families considering a move. The town itself is compact, with amenities concentrated along Main Street and the downtown core.
Boundary County School District's recent parent-relevant changes were searched but none were identified. There is nothing to report on referendums, curriculum shifts, or property-tax changes.
Mount Hall is a small rural elementary school in a working community with timber and agricultural roots. Its academic data is too sparse to draw firm conclusions from state testing alone. Families considering the school would do well to visit, talk with staff about grade-level outcomes and support services, and get a feel for the environment that the published numbers cannot capture.
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