Bonners Ferry High School - Bonners Ferry, Idaho/ID

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Bonners Ferry High School

6485 Tamarack Lane, Bonners Ferry, ID, 83805-8539 -

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Definition of Terms

Bonners Ferry High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Boundary County, ID

Students & Faculty

Total Students

486 students

% Male / % Female

52% / 48%

Total Classroom Teachers

30 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 143 students

Grade 10 - 112 students

Grade 11 - 118 students

Grade 12 - 113 students

This School

(ID) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:16

1:16

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(ID) School Average

% American Indian	2%	1%
% Asian	1%	1%
% Hispanic	4%	10%
% Black	1%	n/a
% White	92%	85%

Additional Student Information

This School

(ID) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

26%

23%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

11%

% Migrant Students Enrolled

(ID) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Boundary County 101 School District

This School's Agency

(ID) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	7	4
Number of Students Managed	1,598 students	1,136 students
District Total Revenue	$12,332,000	$8,230,000
District Expenditure	$16,255,000	$8,273,000
District Revenue / Student	$7,717	$7,245
District Expenditure / Student	$10,172	$7,283
District Graduation Rates	70%	n/a

Education by design - Sun, 01 Nov 2009 PST (The Spokesman-Review)
posted on November 1, 2009 at 07:10:58 am
The fifth-graders in a Post Falls classroom dashed back and forth from open black laptops to tabletop obstacle courses. They made minute programming adjustments, then placed the robots they built on the tables, held their breath and let go. “Yes!” yelled Lyndsay Frey, throwing her hands in the air, after her team’s robot moved several feet along a path, made a 180-degree turn and headed back ...
Coeur d'Alene Press Newspaper | CDAPress.com (Coeur d'Alene Press)
posted on October 24, 2009 at 09:40:20 am
BONNERS FERRY -- Bernadette Kirk Bonner asked those attending her son's memorial service Friday to not only remember Joshua, but the seven others in his military unit who were killed in Afghanistan on Oct. 3.
12 schools linked in Education Network in Idaho (The Idaho Statesman)
posted on September 5, 2009 at 06:03:56 am
The schools are the first to be connected to the new network, a statewide effort to provide state-of
Memories flow during McCormick's centennial (The Western News)
posted on August 25, 2009 at 04:33:51 pm
By Gwen Albers, Hagadone News Network When 79-year-old Juanita “Neta” Randolph Sheffler attended McCormick School, the one-room schoolhouse had no electricity or indoor plumbing, she walked five miles to school and after eighth grade, the Troy woman quit to work in the woods.
Cost-cutting’s complex equation - Sun, 07 Jun 2009 PST (The Spokesman-Review)
posted on June 7, 2009 at 07:09:47 am
BONNERS FERRY, Idaho – Cash-strapped school districts nationwide are considering a four-day school week to reduce expenses. About 100 districts in 17 states are operating on the shortened week, according to the National School Board Association.

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Bonners Ferry High School is a high school in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
Bonners Ferry High School serves the entire community of Boundary County, Idaho: the northernmost county in the state. The approximately 500 students come from an area larger than the state of Rhode Island.
The school is renowned for its wrestling program, under coach Conrad Garner. It produces state champions basically every year. The Cross Country Program under Paul Bonnell is also highly renowned.The girls Cross Country team took first at districts and 5th at State. they had an excellent season. The football team has also had great success, with the 1996 team winning the Intermountain League title, and the 2004 team also winning the league championship, and continuing on to the state semi-finals, the farthest any Bonners Ferry team has ever gotten in Idaho Football, except for a team in the early 1970s which won the state championship.
The school has problems with finances on a regular basis, with school levies a consistent source of anxiety for the town.
The school has also become controversial within the community in recent years as a result of allegations of improper behavior among members of the faculty, particularly administrators. However, there are numerous teachers who have been given honors and awards for the good jobs they have done.
The high school has a four day week, as does the rest of the county school district.
The school is also well known in North Idaho for having "Senior Keggers" each spring, where the senior class throws a party at locations out in the woods. There are tickets sold, and multiple hundreds of attendees.
There is a winter formal each year, and a Prom.
Dropout rates have increased in the years since the last administrative change in 2004, and each freshmen class usually ends up with a less than 75% graduation rate by the end of their senior year.

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