Editing Blaine County, Idaho (section)

==Education==
All but one public school in the county is administered by the [[Blaine County School District 61]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blaineschools.org/Default.aspx|title=Blaine County School District|publisher=Blaineschools.org|access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> The school district covers the entire county.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st16_id/schooldistrict_maps/c16013_blaine/DC20SD_C16013.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Blaine County, ID|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=March 12, 2024}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st16_id/schooldistrict_maps/c16013_blaine/DC20SD_C16013_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref> There are three district-operated public schools in the county that have high school divisions: [[Wood River High School (Idaho)|Wood River High School]] in Hailey, [[Carey School (Carey, Idaho)|Carey School]] in [[Carey, Idaho|Carey]], and [[Silver Creek High School (Idaho)|Silver Creek High School]] in Hailey. Syringa Mountain School is the first [[charter school]] to be approved in Blaine County; it opened in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://magicvalley.com/news/local/only-idaho-public-waldorf-school-opens-in-hailey/article_95e07a76-34b5-11e4-a53c-0019bb2963f4.html|title=Only Idaho Public Waldorf School Opens in Hailey|date=September 5, 2014 |publisher=magicvalley.com|access-date=September 21, 2014}}</ref>

Students living in the rural Yale area in the county's southeastern panhandle are sent to schools in neighboring [[Minidoka County, Idaho|Minidoka County]], operated by the [[Minidoka County School District]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blaineschools.org/District/Neighborhood_School_Boundaries.aspx|title=Blaine County School District : Neighborhood School Boundaries|publisher=Blaineschools.org|access-date=November 13, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929021025/http://www.blaineschools.org/District/Neighborhood_School_Boundaries.aspx|archive-date=September 29, 2011|quote=Students in the Yale/Minidoka Area are excluded.  Students in this area attend school in Minidoka County School District.}}</ref> The Blaine district pays money to the Minidoka district to send the Yale students to Minidoka schools.<ref name=JonesQuirk>{{cite news|last=Jones|first=Douglas S.|title=Out on a limb Boundary quirk puts Yale area residents there|newspaper=[[Times-News (Idaho)|Times-News]]|place=[[Twin Falls, Idaho]]|date=July 7, 1993|volume=88|issue=188|pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/143240257/ A1], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/143240313/ A2]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

Private schools include [[Community School (Sun Valley, Idaho)|Community School]] in Sun Valley and The Sage School in Hailey.

The [[College of Southern Idaho]], a [[community college]] based in [[Twin Falls, Idaho|Twin Falls]], operates an off-campus outreach center in Hailey.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Edit Szanto|author2=Chika Daggett|author3=RD Van Noy|url=http://offcampus.csi.edu/blaine/index.asp|title=CSI Off-Campus Centers &#124; Blaine County Center|publisher=Offcampus.csi.edu|access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> The county is in the catchment area, but not the taxation zone, for College of Southern Idaho.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/budget/publications/Legislative-Budget-Book/2016/1.Education/1-079.Community%20Colleges.pdf|chapter=Community Colleges|title=Legislative Budget Book|publisher=[[Idaho Legislature]]|year=2016|pages=1–81 (PDF p. 3/9)}} - See area 1 in: {{cite web|url=https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title33/T33CH21/SECT33-2101/|title=TITLE 33 EDUCATION CHAPTER 21 JUNIOR COLLEGES|publisher=[[Idaho Legislature]]|access-date=March 12, 2024}}</ref>