Bonners Ferry High School

Bonners Ferry High School is a public high school in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, serving 421 students in grades 9–12 as part of Boundary County District. The school has improved significantly in recent years, going from a 1-star rating in 2016–2018 to a stable 3-star rating, and currently ranks 49th out of 122 Idaho high schools (60th percentile). There are no other schools within 20 miles, so the closest comparisons are to statewide averages.

Academically, the school's biggest strength is English language arts, where students consistently outperform the state — most recently with 73% proficiency compared to 61.3% statewide. Science has also become a relative strength, with recent scores above state averages. However, math is a persistent challenge: only 29.1% of students were proficient on the most recent end-of-course exam, below the state average of 33.1%. Graduation rates have been volatile, dipping to 75.5% in 2023–2024 before recovering to 82.5% in 2024–2025, which exactly matches the state average.

The most urgent concern is chronic absenteeism, which has hovered around 25–27% for the past several years — roughly 10 points above the state average. In the most recent year, the school's rate of 22.3% was nearly double the district rate of 13.6%. The share of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch has also grown, from 27.3% to 30.2% over three years, indicating rising economic need. For parents, this means Bonners Ferry is a school with clear strengths in literacy and science that would benefit from targeted math support — and where encouraging consistent attendance is likely the single most important thing families can do to support student success.