Schools in Zip Code 83836

ZIP code 83836 is home to exactly one school: Hope Elementary School, a small rural public elementary school serving grades PK through 6 with 117 students. As the only school in the area, it serves as the sole elementary option for the community, feeding into secondary schools outside the ZIP code. Hope Elementary is part of the Lake Pend Oreille School District, a well-regarded district that ranks 22nd out of 101 Idaho districts with a 4-star rating.

The school has a favorable student-teacher ratio of 13.9:1 and spends $9,546 per student. However, its academic performance is mixed. In math, 44.3% of students are proficient, essentially matching the state average of 43.1%. In English language arts, only 45.2% are proficient, which is about 9 points below the state average of 54.0% and nearly 19 points below the district's 64.0%. A bright spot is 4th grade ELA, where 55.6% of students are proficient, outpacing both the district and state. By contrast, 6th grade ELA is a concern, with just 35.7% proficient. The school has declined from a 2-star to a 1-star rating, now ranking in the bottom third of Idaho elementary schools.

Hope Elementary serves a majority low-income population, with 54.7% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The district's chronic absenteeism rate is remarkably low at 2.1%, though Hope itself reported a 16.0% rate in 2021–2022. Despite sitting inside a high-performing district, Hope's own rankings lag considerably, making it an outlier worth attention. As the only public elementary school in ZIP 83836, its success is especially important to the local community.