What Blaine County School Distirct, WRHS does

Blaine County School District (BCSD) is a public K-12 school district serving approximately 3,144 students across eight schools in the Wood River Valley of Blaine County, Idaho. The district's portfolio includes three elementary schools (Alturas, Bellevue, Hailey), the Ernest Hemingway PK-8 STEAM School in Ketchum, the K-12 Carey School, Wood River Middle School, Wood River High School (922 students, the flagship), and the smaller alternative Silver Creek High School (51 students). Student demographics include 30% economically disadvantaged, 22% multilingual learners, and 10% students with disabilities, with a roughly even split between White (50.1%) and Hispanic (46.5%) populations.

The district delivers educational services through an integrated technology stack built around PowerSchool and Skyward for student information, Schoology for learning management, Google Workspace for Education for collaboration, and supplemental assessment tools (Istation for K-3 reading, STAR for grades 6-9, WIDA ACCESS for English learners). Support infrastructure includes Chromebook device deployment, SecURLy web filtering, Nutrislice meal planning, and Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA) for online course offerings. Specialized programs span Dual Immersion (English/Spanish), Career Technical Education, Gifted and Talented Education, Special Education, Title I, English Language Development, and a Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports framework.

As a government entity operating under Idaho state law, BCSD is funded through local property taxes, Idaho state education funding formulas, and federal grants, with no tuition charged for K-12 public education. The district is governed by an elected Board of Trustees and currently led by Superintendent Jim Foudy (25 years in Idaho schools), Assistant Superintendent Adam Johnson, and Finance Director Mandy Crow (CPA, MBA Finance). The district employs approximately 489 staff members across all schools, departments, and operations support functions.

Name

Blaine County School Distirct, WRHS

Legal name

Blaine County School District

Website

https://blaineschools.org

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Blaine County School District operates 8 public K-12 schools serving 3,144 students across Idaho's Wood River Valley, funded by state allocations, local property taxes, and federal grants. Programs include Dual Immersion, STEAM, CTE, Special Education, and English Language Development.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Public Education

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (611110), Educational Support Services (6117)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Public School Districts (K–12) (EDADABAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Specialized Instruction & Resource Support (Inclusion, Pull-Out, Co-Teaching) (EDAJAKAC), Specialized Programs & Classrooms (Autism, Emotional/Behavioral, Intellectual/Developmental, Multi-Disability) (EDAJAKAH), District Student Services Administration (Special Ed, Counseling, Health) (EDADABAJ)

Keywords

• Public K-12 education
• Special education services
• Career technical education
• Bilingual immersion programs
• Student support services

Headquarters

HQ city

Hailey

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices12 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Public Education Funding: District funded through local property taxes, Idaho state education funding formulas, and federal grants. No tuition charged for K-12 public education.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Blaine County School District provides free public K-12 education to approximately 3,144 students across 8 schools in Blaine County, Idaho. The district operates three elementary schools, one PK-8 STEAM school, one K-12 rural school, one middle school, and two high schools, supplemented by specialized programs including Dual Immersion bilingual education, Career Technical Education, Special Education, English Language Development, and Gifted and Talented Education. Operational support services include student transportation, school meals, technology deployment with Chromebooks and web filtering, and student support services such as counseling, nursing, and social work.

Product overview

Blaine County School District (BCSD) operates as a traditional public K-12 school district with a platform-plus-services model. The district encompasses eight schools: three elementary schools (Alturas, Bellevue, Hailey), one PK-8 STEAM school (Ernest Hemingway), one K-12 rural school (Carey), one middle school (Wood River Middle), and two high schools (Wood River High and Silver Creek High). Supporting the core academic mission, the district offers specialized educational programs including Dual Immersion bilingual education, Career Technical Education (CTE), Gifted and Talented Education (GATE), English Language Development, Special Education, and Title I intervention services. Infrastructure support services include technology (Chromebooks, SecURLy filtering), food services, transportation, and comprehensive student support (counseling, nursing, social work, psychology). The district utilizes integrated third-party platforms for student information (PowerSchool, Skyward), learning management (Schoology, Google Classroom), assessment (Istation, STAR), and nutrition management (Nutrislice).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wood River High School (WRHS)
• Alturas Elementary School
• Bellevue Elementary School
• Hailey Elementary School
• Ernest Hemingway STEAM School
• Carey School
• Wood River Middle School
• Silver Creek High School
• Food Services
• Transportation Services
• Student Support Services
• Technology Department Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 3,144 students served across 8 schools with dedicated staff

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration15 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Park City School District: Utah mountain-resort public K-12 district serving Park City. Highly comparable demographic profile (amenity-driven mountain community with diverse student body) and similar specialty-program strategy including dual-language and STEAM offerings.
• Eagle County School District: Colorado public K-12 district covering Vail/Beaver Creek. Similar mountain-resort service area with significant multilingual learner population, comparable reliance on tourism-dependent property tax base, and similar scale.
• Lake Pend Oreille School District: North-Idaho public K-12 district serving Sandpoint and surrounding rural communities. Operates in the same state funding environment as BCSD with a comparable rural-resort mix and multi-school structure.
• Bonneville Joint School District 93: Large Idaho public K-12 district serving eastern Idaho with multiple schools across elementary, middle, and high school levels. Comparable governance structure under Idaho law and similar reliance on state/local/federal education funding.
• McCall-Donnelly School District: Idaho mountain/resort-area public K-12 district where Superintendent Jim Foudy previously served (2015-2021). Similar small-town mountain setting, comparable enrollment scale, and overlapping program mix make it the most directly comparable peer.
• Aspen School District: Colorado mountain-resort public K-12 district serving Aspen and Snowmass Village. Comparable resort-community enrollment profile, property-tax-driven funding model, and small-school structure with differentiated academic programs.
• Teton County School District #1: Wyoming public K-12 district serving Jackson/Teton County. Similar high-amenity resort-region demographic, comparable enrollment size, and overlapping reliance on local property taxes from a resort-area tax base.

Broad incumbents

• Boise School District: Idaho's largest K-12 public district. As a much broader incumbent in the same state funding and policy environment, it serves as the scale benchmark against which BCSD's per-pupil efficiency and program breadth are measured.
• Nampa School District: Large Idaho public K-12 district serving the Boise metro area. Provides state-level benchmarking on operational scale, English-learner programming, and federal Title I utilization that are material to BCSD's funding mix.

Regional players

• Teton Valley School District: Idaho public K-12 district serving Teton Valley (Driggs/Victor). Adjacent mountain-resort community across state lines from Jackson; operates in the same Idaho state funding formula with a similarly small, demographically mixed enrollment base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/BlaineSchools

Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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