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MEMORANDUM: SCHOOL IMPACTS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Community Development 33 E. Broadway Avenue, Meridian, ID 83642
Phone 208-884-5533 Fax 208-888-6854 www.meridiancity.org
June 16, 2025
TO: Sonya Allen, Associate Planner
CC: Bill Parsons, Current Planning Supervisor
FROM: Hether Hill, Long Range Associate Coordination Planner
RE: H-2024-0071: Pine 43 Mixed Use Subdivision - ALT, AZ, CUP, MDA, PP, RZ
CUMULATIVE IMPACTS ON SCHOOLS
The proposed residential development application is located at S1108233651, S1108233755,
S1108233850, S1108233950, S1108233995, S1108234011, S1108234051, S1108244538,
S1108325455 and S1108325470. This section of the memo looks at cumulative impacts over a
broad area and provides entitlement data in areas affected by the subject application. The
following information is intended as a reference, rather than a decisive tool, and serves to
forecast the number of school-aged children, enrolled in both public and private schools, using
city-wide census data. To date and within the last five years, there have been 740 entitled
units (49 single-family and 691 multi-family) approved within a 1-mile radius of the project
location resulting in approximately 442 school-aged children.
Note: Total units derived from enterprise data for preliminary plats and unrelated conditional
use permits in the last 5-years. This data reflects approved projects only and excludes pending
applications, including the subject application. American Community Survey 5-year data is used
to determine persons per household and enrollment by grades for public and private schools. 205 107 129 442 180 98 117 394 26 10 12 48 -
100
200
300
400
500
Elementary Middle High Total
Forecasted Students Based on Entitlements
Total Students Public Private
Exhibit A
West Ada School District
STUDENT GENERATION RATES
West Ada School District (WASD) uses a Student Generation Rate (SGR) to determine what
impact future development will have on enrollments. Based on the submitted application
materials, the proposed project will contain 30 single-family units and 874 multi-family units
(270 units of which are proposed as part of the Conditional Use Permit application and 604
units which are proposed to be vertically integrated above ground floor commercial).
Pine Avenue transects the project and subsequently, the project may impact two separate
school boundaries – River Valley Elementary, north of Pine Ave., and Meridian Elementary,
south of Pine Ave. Without knowing exactly how many units will be in each school boundary
area, staff has calculated SGR for each using the total number of units (table below). These
calculations result in a range of approximately 185-191 school-aged children across all grade
levels. The proposed project is within the following school boundaries, currently, and approval
of the project may affect enrollments at these schools:
School Boundary Areas 24-25’ Enrollment Architectural
Capacity
Program
Capacity
Meridian Elementary 468 650 600
River Valley Elementary 468 700 600
Lewis and Clark Middle 899 1000 -
Centennial High 1754 1900 -
SGR Total Units
Development Area Zone Single
Family
Multi
Family
Total
Single
Family
Total
Multi
Family
Estimated
Students Architectural
Capacity
Program
Capacity
Meridian Elementary 0.51 0.2 30 874 191 650 600
River Valley Elementary 0.32 0.2 30 874 185 700 600
Note: Student Generation Rates are calculated in reference to the designated elementary school
within the subject property’s associated development area zone. This information is intended as
a reference, rather than a decisive tool.
Exhibit A
HISTORICAL ENROLLMENTS
The following table includes historical student enrollment data for schools, within a two-mile
radius, that may be affected by future school boundary changes:
Notes:
• Attendance data per Idaho Department of Education 1. WASD also provides current and historical
enrollment data: https://www.westada.org/page/district-data
• Projects can be built in phases and full impacts not immediate.
• Architectural Capacity – the capacity established at the time a school is designed based on the
number of general education classrooms in the building. 2
1 https://www.sde.idaho.gov/finance/
2 https://www.westada.org/page/facility-plan/
Development Area Zone 2024-2025
Enrollment
2023 - 2024
Enrollment
2022 - 2023
Enrollment
2021 - 2022
Enrollment
2020 - 2021
Enrollment
Discovery Elementary School 417 478 463 491 403
Joplin Elementary School 241 245 266 270 226
Meridian Elementary School 468 436 447 440 401
Pepper Ridge Elementary School 471 504 514 542 457
Peregrine Elementary School 483 454 426 469 390
Ponderosa Elementary School 415 434 428 464 405
Prospect Elementary School 456 495 532 543 501
River Valley Elementary School 468 475 428 453 392
Siena Elementary School 565 605 653 657 562
Ustick Elementary School 389 369 354 378 376
Heritage Middle School 1009 1040 1066 1049 1039
Lewis and Clark Middle School 899 859 881 887 851
Lowell Scott Middle School 779 797 806 840 799
Meridian Middle School 961 956 1076 1095 1028
Sawtooth Middle School 829 815 893 922 903
Victory Middle School 1075 1056 1047 985 875
Centennial High School 1754 1780 1941 1959 1881
Meridian High School 1781 1827 1785 1761 1876
Mountain View High School 2479 2537 2469 2373 2261
Owyhee High School 1887 1816 1781 1458 0
Rocky Mountain High School 1868 1916 1922 1984 2413
Attendance
Exhibit B