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MEMORANDUM: SCHOOL IMPACTS
C OMMUNITY D EVELOPMENT D EPARTMENT
February 27, 2026
TO: Sonya Allen, Current Associate Planner
CC: Bill Parson, Current Planning Supervisor
FROM: Craige Bergman, Long-Range Associate Coordination Planner
RE: H-2024-0059: Latitude Forty-Three Subdivision
CUMULATIVE IMPACTS ON SCHOOLS
The proposed residential development application is located at 675, 715, and 955 S. Wells St.
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 1942 entitled units (112 single-family
and 1830 multi-family) approved within a 1-mile radius of the project location resulting in
approximately 1074 school-aged children.
Notes: Total units derived from Meridian enterprise data for preliminary plats and relevant conditional
use permits over 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.
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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. Using WASD’s SGR, the following is City
staff’s assessment: The SGR for Meridian Elementary School is 0.51 for single-family and 0.2 for
multi-family. Based on the submitted application materials, the proposed project will contain
81 single family units and 0 multi-family units resulting in approximately 42 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 Attendance Areas 25-26’ Enrollment Architectural Program
Capacity Capacity
Meridian Elementary School 468 650 600
Lewis and Clark Middle School 899 1000 -
Centennial High School 1754 1900 -
Notes:
Student Generation Rates are calculated in reference to the designated elementary school within the
subject property’s associated school attendance area. This information is intended as a reference,
rather than a decisive tool.
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
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number of general education classrooms in the building.
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https://www.westada.org/page/facility-plan/
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EXHIBIT B
WEST ADA SCHOOL DISTRICT - HISTORICAL ENROLLMENTS
The following table includes historical student enrollment data for schools that may be affected
by future school boundary changes:
ENROLLMENT
2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022
School Attendance Area
Cecil D Andrus Elementary 332 377 406 421 464
Chaparral Elementary 539 545 533 535 537
Desert Sage Elementary School 466 477 493 521 593
Discovery Elementary School 380 417 478 463 491
Eagle Elementary School 404 389 344 326 295
Eagle Hills Elementary School 371 364 399 409 419
Frontier Elementary School 258 264 266 270 274
Hillsdale Elementary 762 769 745 690 640
Hunter Elementary School 547 460 478 516 544
Joplin Elementary School 224 241 245 266 270
Lake Hazel Elementary School 323 328 348 390 405
Mary Mc Pherson Elementary 534 495 484 458 446
Mc Millan Elementary School 187 241 242 259 254
Meridian Elementary 447 468 436 447 440
Paramount Elementary School 460 460 482 502 498
Pepper Ridge Elementary 482 472 504 514 542
Peregrine Elementary School 437 483 454 426 469
Pleasant View Elementary 724 747 655 616 556
Ponderosa Elementary School 379 415 434 428 464
Prospect Elementary School 452 456 495 532 543
River Valley Elementary School 428 468 475 428 453
Seven Oaks Elementary 521 534 572 580 525
Siena Elementary 544 565 605 653 657
Silver Sage Elementary School 230 250 307 330 261
Star Elementary School 855 727 668 652 614
Ustick Elementary School 386 389 369 354 378
Willow Creek Elementary School 445 504 533 544 567
Eagle Middle School 836 838 847 855 869
Heritage Middle School 973 1009 1040 1066 1049
Lake Hazel Middle School 970 987 1018 1069 1049
Lewis & Clark Middle School 863 899 859 881 887
Lowell Scott Middle School 760 779 797 806 840
Meridian Middle School 919 961 956 1076 1095
Sawtooth Middle School 851 829 815 893 922
Star Middle School 1051 1014 943 894 825
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ENROLLMENT
2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022
School Attendance Area
Victory Middle School 1080 1075 1056 1047 985
Centennial High School 1704 1754 1780 1941 1959
Eagle High School 1783 1783 1806 1805 1778
Idaho Fine Arts 256 260 265 265 213
Meridian High School 1690 1781 1827 1785 1761
Mountain View High School 2465 2479 2537 2469 2373
Owyhee High School 1897 1887 1816 1781 1458
Renaissance High School 672 668 683 662 694
Rocky Mountain High School 1871 1868 1916 1922 1984
Notes:
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Attendance data per Idaho Department of Education. WASD also provides current and historical
enrollment data: https://www.westada.org/page/district-data
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https://www.sde.idaho.gov/finance/
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EXHIBIT C
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