Ririe Junior/Senior High School

Ririe Junior/Senior High School serves 354 students in grades 7–12 in the small, rural community of Ririe, Idaho, and is part of the Ririe Joint District. The school's clearest strength is English Language Arts, with 58.9% of students proficient in 2025–26, outpacing both the state (54.0%) and the district (53.3%)—a trend that has held for several years. Attendance is another bright spot: Ririe's chronic absenteeism rate of just 2.1% in 2023–24 is dramatically lower than the state average of 15.0% and far better than nearby Thunder Ridge High School (11.2%) or Bonneville High School (13.2%).

Math, however, is a persistent weakness. Only 31.1% of Ririe students were proficient in math in 2025–26, well below the state average of 43.1% and the district's 43.5%. This wide gap—27.8 percentage points between ELA and math proficiency—far exceeds the statewide gap of 10.9 points. When compared to nearby schools, Ririe generally holds its own against the larger comprehensive high schools in Idaho Falls, but it trails Rigby High School, which posted 50.4% math proficiency in 2024–25 despite having a similar poverty rate.

Ririe's performance has been notably volatile over the past decade, swinging from the 81st percentile in 2014–15 to the 12th percentile in 2021–22 and back to the 33rd percentile in 2025–26. With such a small student body, year-to-year cohort changes can produce large swings. The graduation rate has historically exceeded the state average, though it converged to 82.5% in 2024–25. With 24.58% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch, Ririe has a lower poverty concentration than nearby Jefferson High School (54.55%) or Bonneville High (30.7%). The combination of excellent attendance, a favorable student-teacher ratio of 16.8, and strong literacy outcomes points to a supportive environment—though the emergence of a significant gender achievement gap among female students is worth monitoring.