Summary:
Fremont County Joint District in the Saint Anthony, Idaho area is served by a single middle school, South Fremont Junior High, which enrolls 367 students in grades 6 through 8 and has a 60.76% free/reduced lunch rate and a student-teacher ratio of 18.1. Because this is the only middle school in the district, the school's performance defines the district's results, making state averages and year-over-year trends the most useful points of comparison.
South Fremont Junior High shows a mix of strengths and challenges. The school's 8th grade math proficiency rate of 42.6% actually beats both the district (40.2%) and the state (41.2%), making it the only tested area where the school exceeds Idaho's average. Eighth grade English Language Arts is also a relative bright spot at 48.4%, close to the state's 54.5%. However, all-grade math (34.5% vs. 43.1% statewide), all-grade ELA (44.0% vs. 54.0%), and 8th grade science (30.2% vs. 42.9%) trail the state. Sixth grade is the toughest year, with just 26.9% of students proficient in math and 36.6% in ELA.
One encouraging trend is that students improve as they move through the school. Math proficiency climbs from 26.9% in 6th grade to 42.6% in 8th grade, and ELA rises from 36.6% to 48.4%. ELA overall jumped 6.7 percentage points year-over-year. The school also reports a chronic absenteeism rate of 10.1%, better than the district (12.2%) and state (13.8%). On the downside, the school's state ranking has slipped from the 34th percentile (2 stars) in 2023-2024 to the 18th percentile (1 star) in 2025-2026, even though raw scores improved slightly. With a high poverty rate and a per-student spending figure of $7,534 (from 2018-2019), the school faces real challenges, but the strong 8th grade results and improving ELA scores show there are solid foundations to build on.
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