Summary:
Future Public School Inc. is a single-school district in Garden City, ID, serving grades K–6 at Future Public School with 376 students, making it the district's only campus and the sole driver of district performance. The district is ranked 24th out of 101 districts in Idaho, earning a 4-star rating (76th percentile), while the school itself is ranked 125th out of 346 schools with a 3-star rating (64th percentile). This discrepancy means the school is stronger relative to other districts than it is relative to other schools.
Academically, Future Public School outperforms the state average in every tested subject and grade level on the 2025-2026 ISAT. All-grade math proficiency is 51.1% versus the state's 43.1%, ELA is 58.7% versus 54.0%, and 5th-grade science is 50.9% versus 44.0%. However, math proficiency steadily declines as students advance: 57.9% in 3rd grade, 55.4% in 4th, 45.6% in 5th, and 43.2% in 6th—a 14.7-point drop. ELA tells the opposite story, rising to 65.9% in 6th grade, 14.4 points above the state average. Additionally, all-grade math proficiency fell 3.4 points year-over-year from 54.5% to 51.1%, while ELA remained flat.
Beyond test scores, chronic absenteeism is a clear positive at 9.6%, well below the state's 13.8%. The school serves a relatively high-need population, with 46.54% of students qualifying for free/reduced-price lunch, yet still outperforms the state in every subject. The student-teacher ratio is 20.8, and per-student spending was $10,556 in 2018-2019. The school's state ranking percentile slipped from the 69th to the 64th percentile, though it has maintained a 3-star rating across all three years.
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