Summary:
ZIP code 83338 contains just one middle school, Jerome Middle School, which serves grades 6 through 8 and enrolls a substantial 937 students within the Jerome Joint District—a district ranked near the bottom of Idaho (95 out of 101) with a zero-star rating.
Because Jerome Middle School is the only middle school in this area, there are no local rivals to compare it against, but it shows a clear pattern of outperforming its district while trailing state averages. In 2025-2026, math proficiency reached 25.1% versus the district's 24.1%, while ELA proficiency hit 36.3% compared to 32.2% districtwide—yet both subjects lag dramatically behind Idaho's averages of 43.1% and 54.0%, respectively. On the state's accountability scale, the school has consistently ranked in the bottom fifth of Idaho middle schools, earning one star every year and dropping from the 19th percentile (2023-2024) to the 11th percentile (2025-2026), even though its actual proficiency scores rose slightly.
The school serves a predominantly low-income student body, with roughly 66% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a factor that contextualizes its proficiency gaps. Chronic absenteeism, however, is a relative bright spot: 12.7% of students were chronically absent in 2024-2025, slightly better than the district's 13.5%. Grade-level data from 2025-2026 shows 7th graders performing better in math (26.7% proficient) than in ELA (33.3%, below the school's overall ELA average), while 8th-grade science proficiency stood at 36.0%, slightly above its district but 6.9 points below the state. Per-student spending of $6,551 dates back to 2018-2019, offering limited insight into current funding. Overall, Jerome Middle School serves as a stabilizing presence in a struggling district, but it faces steep challenges relative to Idaho as a whole.
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