Bonneville Online Elementary

Bonneville Online Elementary is an online public school in Idaho Falls, ID, serving 375 students in grades PK–8 as part of the Bonneville Joint District. The school has shown meaningful improvement this year, jumping from the 7th percentile to the 30th percentile in Idaho's 2025-2026 elementary rankings and earning a 2-star rating. That said, it still sits below many traditional elementary schools nearby, though direct comparisons are imperfect because Bonneville Online serves through 8th grade while most neighboring schools like Bridgewater Elementary School and Falls Valley Elementary School serve only PK–6.

The most important concern in the data is math. Only 23.9% of students are proficient in math, compared with roughly 44.9% at nearby same-district schools and 43.1% statewide. This is the lowest math proficiency of any comparable school in the area, and the gap between reading (47.0%) and math (23.9%) is the largest among peer schools. Reading performance is moderate overall, and 8th-grade English language arts is a genuine bright spot at 62.9% proficient — well above the district's 52.2%. Science is another relative strength, with 40.7% proficiency at the all-grade level, slightly above the district's 37.7%.

One structural feature is striking: the student-teacher ratio is 46.7 to 1, roughly three times higher than the 16.5–18.9 range at nearby traditional schools. This reflects a lean, self-directed online model with limited direct teacher contact. On the positive side, chronic absenteeism has been lower than district and state averages, and spending is relatively modest at about $6,295 per student. The encouraging news is that reading, science, and attendance stand out positively, while the persistent math weakness — which has never come within 14 points of the state average — remains the clearest area for attention.