Overview

Idaho City High School is a small public school serving grades 7-12 in Idaho City, the county seat of Boise County -- a rural mountain community about 38 miles northeast of Boise, distinct from the state's largest city despite the shared name. NCES directory data records 44 students eligible for free lunch and 8 for reduced-price lunch out of 126 total enrollment.

Academics

No independently verified Idaho state assessment data was located for this profile; check the Idaho State Department of Education's Idaho Report Card directly for current school-level results.

Neighborhood

Idaho City is a small, remote former gold-mining boomtown in the Boise National Forest, now a small rural community. General sources on Idaho safety describe rural Idaho communities like this one as having minimal violent crime, though we didn't find data on Idaho City with the same level of detail available for larger cities in this directory.

Crime & safety

One safety-scoring source gave Idaho City a score of 75 on a local comparison tool (versus 64 for Meridian, 50 for Nampa, and 52 for Idaho Falls on the same tool), consistent with general reporting that rural Idaho communities tend to have low violent crime. We could not independently verify this figure against FBI UCR data or a second source, and rural areas this small often aren't separately tracked in national crime databases -- a real limitation, not an oversight.

This is a case where the town is small enough that standard crime-index tools (CrimeGrade, NeighborhoodScout, DoorProfit) don't appear to publish dedicated Idaho City-specific pages the way they do for larger cities elsewhere in this directory. We found one score from one source and are showing it as a single data point, not a verified consensus.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score, and for this school we're not showing one: the only safety data point available is single-sourced and unverified, and no academic data was located. See our ratings methodology.

Sources

  1. NCES Common Core of Data, School Search -- Idaho City High School, 2024-25 school year.
  2. Nextdoor Neighbors resource page, Boise-area city safety scores (Idaho City figure specifically), 2026.
  3. FreedomForAllAmericans.org, "Is Idaho Safe in 2026," general rural-Idaho crime context.