Idaho Falls is the principal city of the Idaho Falls, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Idaho Falls - Blackfoot, Idaho Combined Statistical Area and is the state's largest city outside the Boise metropolitan area and is the third -
largest metro area behind Boise City - Nampa and Coeur d'Alene, which is adjacent to the larger Spokane metropolitan area.
The attention needs to shift;
behind Denver, Aurora is home to the
largest number of the state's failing schools in a single district, and some of the lowest academic achievement in the
metro area.