North Idaho STEM Charter top performer in K-3 literacy
North Idaho STEM Charter Academy second grader Serena Tufford reads a "Magic Tree House" book in Michelle Breitkreutz's class. STEM Charter is top in the state for reading proficiency for kindergarten through third grade students, as revealed by the recently announced fall 2025 Idaho Reading Indicator results.
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Literacy is a primary focus because it establishes a core skill that young students will continue to build throughout their academic careers and use for the rest of their lives.
"The old saying is, 'From K-3 we learn to read, and from fourth grade on we read to learn,'" North Idaho STEM Charter Academy founder and Executive Director Scott Thomson said Monday. "It’s not just the literacy, which is reading for enjoyment, but we need to learn to read in the content areas — math, science, social studies and language arts. We’ve got to learn to read critically. When we learn how to read well at a young age, we can learn how to read and think critically as young adults."
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