91% of Idaho districts pass their supplemental levies

In the past 4 years 199 of 219 proposed levies have passed which makes District 244 failures an outlier in the state.

No one likes taxes. However, property tax levies are the funding mechanism Idaho has in place to provide for their schools and the vast majority of other districts are passing their supplemental levies. The possibility that the legislature will decide to fund differently is remote at best considering their statewide success rate of levies, and regardless nothing would change in time to save our schools from a $3.1 million* shortfall and resulting cuts.

Idaho School Districts’ Levy Election Results for the 4 years:

Year	Total # of Levies Proposed	# of Levies Passed	% of Levies passed	# of Levies Failed	244 District Levy Results
2020- 2021	54	49	91%	5	Failed
2021- 2022	56	50	89%	6	Failed
2022- 2023	51	48	94%	3	Failed
2023-2024	58	52	90%	6	Didn't run
4 year total	219	199	91%	20*	3 failed levies

*Notes: (Data Source – Idaho State Department of Education)

The above figures do NOT include the 15 continuously operating levies.
Out of the 20 failed levies, there were only 6 school district levies that were not re-run and passed at a later date that year, 3 of those were from 244.
About 75% of the proposed levies were for 2 years, so the actual number of school districts relying on levy funding Is higher than the figures indicate.

*2024-2025 School year budget and May 21 levy amount won’t be finalized until March 2024.