Orofino Joint District vs Everett Area SD
ID · 1,090 students • PA · 1,126 students • fiscal year 2024 • swap sides
In one line
- Orofino Joint District and Everett Area SD spend within 2% of each other per student once local price levels are accounted for.
- Orofino Joint District directs 6 more cents of every operating dollar to instruction than Everett Area SD.
- Everett Area SD is far more dependent on local property taxes (42% of revenue vs 21%), which ties its budget more tightly to local property values.
- Everett Area SD reports fewer students per teacher (12.0 vs 15.6). This is a staffing ratio, not an average class size.
Are these even comparable?
Establish the shape of each district before reading a single dollar figure.
| Orofino Joint District | Everett Area SD | |
|---|---|---|
| Students enrolled | 1,090 | 1,126 |
| Schools | 8 | 3 |
| Grades served | PK–12 | PK–12 |
| Setting | Rural | Rural |
| County | Clearwater County | Bedford County |
| State | ID | PA |
| Local price level (US = 100) Above 100 means a dollar buys less here than the national average. | 95.5 | 97.6 |
The headline dollar
Current operating spending per student, shown three ways. The first is what each district reports. The second and third are the honest ones for comparison.
| Orofino Joint District | Everett Area SD | |
|---|---|---|
| Per student, as reported | $16,159 | $16,496 |
| Per student, price-adjusted Divided by the local price level, so both figures are in the same money. | $16,922 | $16,906 |
| Per student, price-adjusted, excluding transport Transportation provision varies enormously between districts and states. Removing it compares the parts both districts actually do. | $16,094 | $15,284 |
| Capital spending per student Buildings and land, never folded into the operating figures above. It is lumpy: a district mid-build looks expensive for two years. | Locked | Locked |
Orofino Joint District
Everett Area SD
Where the money comes from
The funding mix determines how exposed a district is to local property values, to state politics, and to federal programmes ending.
Orofino Joint District
- Local 21.2% Locked
- State 67.5% Locked
- Federal 11.3% Locked
Everett Area SD
- Local 41.6% Locked
- State 49.6% Locked
- Federal 8.8% Locked
| Orofino Joint District | Everett Area SD | |
|---|---|---|
| Local share of revenue Mostly property tax. A high share means school budgets track local property values, up and down. | 21.2% | 41.6% |
| State share of revenue | 67.5% | 49.6% |
| Federal share of revenue | 11.3% | 8.8% |
| Total revenue | Locked | Locked |
How ID funds its districts
We have not yet written up ID's funding formula, so nothing is claimed here.
How PA funds its districts
A student-weighted basic education funding formula applied to new money only, over a historically large local share.
Where the money goes
The same slices in the same order for both districts, plus the differences by function — because two pie charts side by side hide exactly the thing you want to see.
Orofino Joint District
- Instruction 62.5% Locked
- Instructional staff support 5.6% Locked
- Student support 5.1% Locked
- Operations & maintenance 7.6% Locked
- Transportation 4.9% Locked
- Food service 4.9% Locked
- School administration 5.2% Locked
- District administration 2.3% Locked
- Other support 2.0% Locked
- Other current 4.9% Locked
Everett Area SD
- Instruction 59.9% Locked
- Instructional staff support 2.1% Locked
- Student support 4.9% Locked
- Operations & maintenance 8.0% Locked
- Transportation 9.6% Locked
- Food service 5.2% Locked
- School administration 4.5% Locked
- District administration 2.9% Locked
- Other support 2.8% Locked
- Other current 5.2% Locked
What is actually different
Share of each district's operating dollar, Orofino Joint District minus Everett Area SD. Two pie charts side by side are almost impossible to read against each other; this is the same data as one chart.
| Orofino Joint District | Everett Area SD | |
|---|---|---|
| Cents of each operating dollar reaching classrooms Instruction plus instructional staff support, as a share of current spending. | 68.0% | 62.1% |
| Administration share District office plus school administration. | 7.5% | 7.5% |
| Transportation share | 4.9% | 9.6% |
What the money buys
Staffing levels are the most direct thing a budget converts into.
| Orofino Joint District | Everett Area SD | |
|---|---|---|
| Students per teacher This is a staffing ratio: total enrollment divided by teaching staff. It is NOT average class size. Actual classes are larger than this number in every district. | 15.6 | 12.0 |
| Students per counselor | Locked | Locked |
| Students per administrator | Locked | Locked |
| Total salaries All staff, not teachers alone. | Locked | Locked |
Who they serve
The answer to "but they serve different kids" — which is usually a fair objection.
| Orofino Joint District | Everett Area SD | |
|---|---|---|
| Child poverty rate Children aged 5 to 17 in poverty within the district boundary. Used instead of free-lunch eligibility, which community eligibility has made unusable for comparison. | 16.6% | 16.9% |
| English learners | — | — |
| Students with disabilities | — | — |
| Enrollment change, 5 years | -3.5% | -9.0% |
Results, and results for the money
Stability and risk
The homebuyer’s real question: what is likely to change after I move in?
Orofino Joint District
No stability flags raised.
Everett Area SD
- Declining enrollment Enrollment fell more than 5% over five years. Enrollment decline is the single best predictor of school closures and programme cuts.
| Orofino Joint District | Everett Area SD | |
|---|---|---|
| Enrollment change, 5 years | -3.5% | -9.0% |
| Long-term debt per student | Locked | Locked |
| Debt service share of spending | Locked | Locked |
Enrolling a child
Is a seat at your zoned school guaranteed?
Orofino Joint District
We have no such statement from this district — which is not the same as a promise that your zoned school has room. Most districts never publish the policy in either direction. Ask the school office directly whether your address’s school is enrolling at your child’s grade level before you sign anything.
Everett Area SD
We have no such statement from this district — which is not the same as a promise that your zoned school has room. Most districts never publish the policy in either direction. Ask the school office directly whether your address’s school is enrolling at your child’s grade level before you sign anything.
- This is the district’s own published wording, not our summary of it. Policies are rewritten between enrollment seasons and a page can be out of date the day after we read it — the school office is the only authority on whether a particular grade at a particular school is full right now.
- A warning here is about capacity, not about your address. It does not mean your child will be moved; it means the district has told you in writing that it may move them.
Comparability notes
- Cross-state comparison. Dollars below are shown both as reported and adjusted to a common price level, because a dollar buys different amounts of teacher in ID and PA.
- At least one district sits outside a metro area with its own published price index, so its cost adjustment uses the statewide index. That is a coarser adjustment.
What these numbers are, exactly
Who decides, and what it costs you
Every band above this one asks what a district spends. This one asks who chose to.
Orofino Joint District
The district levies its own school tax
This district raises property tax in its own name. Who sets the rate varies by state — an elected board in some, a public vote in others — but the levy is the school system’s own, and it is the part of a tax bill that school politics moves most directly.
Everett Area SD
The district levies its own school tax
This district raises property tax in its own name. Who sets the rate varies by state — an elected board in some, a public vote in others — but the levy is the school system’s own, and it is the part of a tax bill that school politics moves most directly.
| Orofino Joint District | Everett Area SD | |
|---|---|---|
| School property tax levied, per student Only for districts that levy in their own name. Blank where the county or town levies instead — see the cards above, and read the next row. | $2,174 | $5,873 |
| Appropriated by the county or town, per student What the parent government handed the schools, for dependent systems. This is a general appropriation, not solely property tax. | — | — |
| Property tax as a share of all revenue How much of the budget rides on local property values, and therefore on local votes. | 11.5% | 24.9% |
| Long-term debt already owed, per student The balance at the end of the year, for scale. Repaid over decades, so it is a commitment made by earlier boards rather than a bill arriving now. | Locked | Locked |
| Debt service as a share of spending Interest plus principal repaid this year, against total spending. This is the part of the debt that is being paid now, out of money that would otherwise reach a classroom. | Locked | Locked |
| New long-term debt issued, per student Money borrowed during fiscal year 2024. What this figure does and does not tell you is set out under the table. | — | $8 |
- Orofino Joint District: borrowing withheld. Its debt schedule does not balance — the opening balance plus what it says it issued, less what it says it retired, does not reach the closing balance it reports. 335 districts are in this position. Rather than print a figure from a schedule that does not add up, we print none.
- A figure in the borrowing row is not a bond voters approved. It records debt issued, and that includes refinancing existing debt at a new rate — which changes nothing about what a district owes — as well as certificates of participation and lease-revenue debt, which in many states a board can issue with no referendum at all. To find out what was actually on a ballot, check the county election office.
- Debt is repaid over decades. A large balance per student is a commitment made by earlier boards and earlier voters, not a bill arriving this year. The debt service row above it is the part being paid now.
Who sits on the board
Everett Area SD board of education
- Jim Keebaugh — President
- Joseph Payne — Vice President
- Casey Weaver — Treasurer
- Fred Baca
- Charlee Howsare
- Peggy Clark
- Jamie Howsare
- Dustin Wilson
- John Shaffer
6 of these are listed on the page without an office. It names them among the board without saying which office they hold, so none is shown for them. It is not a vacancy.
Read from the district’s own board page on 2026-08-24. Boards change; the district’s page is the current record, not ours.
These seats are elected, and what this board decides — the budget, the attendance boundaries, the calendar — is decided at a meeting the public may attend. The district’s own board page, linked above, is where it publishes the schedule and the agenda. We do not hold meeting dates or contact details for these people.
Funding measures on the ballot
Orofino Joint District
We hold every school funding measure the state of ID published for 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024, and this district appears in none of them.
What this state publishes: School district ballot questions from the Idaho Secretary of State's elections database, which states its own span as 1990 to 2024 and holds 713 questions across every local taxing body in the state. Only even-year May primaries and November generals appear: Idaho school districts may also vote in March, in August and in odd-numbered years, and none of those elections are in this file, so a district shown with no measure in a year may simply have voted on a date the state does not archive here. Local school questions begin in practice in 2014. Two things this source does not supply are left out rather than guessed at. It publishes no outcome — the winning choice it marks is the majority recomputed for display, and Idaho bonds need a two-thirds supermajority, so a measure with 60 percent support is marked a winner and failed — and so no Idaho measure here is shown as passed or defeated. And it files each question under a single county, district or the state without saying whether those votes are the whole district's: for a district lying across county lines each county canvasses its own part, so a question is published only where the source files it under the school district itself or where every county named on the ballot reported.
Everett Area SD
We have not read PA’s election results, so this column is empty because of us and not because of Everett Area SD. Whether it has asked its voters for money is a question its county election office can answer and we cannot, yet.
Nobody has read PA’s school election results yet — that is a gap on our side, not a fact about this district. Its county elections office holds what it asked its voters for and what they answered, and that is a public record you can request. What it says is worth asking about at a board meeting.
The detailed figures for Orofino Joint District and Everett Area SD
The verdict, the headline dollar, the funding shares, who is served and every comparability caveat are free above, and stay free. What is behind the lock is the detail you would want before acting on any of it:
- capital spending per student
- total revenue and total current spending, and the funding mix in dollars (the percentage shares stay free)
- the ten-line per-student breakdown of where the money goes
- counselor and administrator ratios, and the total salary bill
- the debt behind the risk flags — per student, and as a share of spending
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