BYU-Idaho is bigger.

Again.

The university welcomed its largest incoming class in history this fall, measured by attendance at new student orientation, which is for any student new to campus. Over 8,000 students participated, four times more than fall 2023.

School officials credited the First-Year Experience Office, created in 2022, with helping new students engage in orientation, a major focus of every college and university in the Church Educational System of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

That was far from the only record set this year.

A fall semester total enrollment record

The total number of students enrolled at BYU-Idaho in any way during a fall semester is 45,584, the largest in school history.

The total fall 2024 enrollment of campus-based students is up 3.4% over fall 2023 numbers, according to a news release. Here’s the breakdown:

• 19,388 students enrolled in face-to-face courses, up 3.6%. (This number has actually declined each of the past three years.)

• 4,723 campus-based students enrolled in online courses and/or internships.

• 24,111 total.

The overall number bulges to the record when total online enrollment is added.

BYU-Idaho has 21,473 online students this fall through its partnership with BYU-Pathway Worldwide.

A new record for the three, calendar-year semesters

For the biggest number of all, consider the 2024 calendar-year numbers:

• 33,836 campus-based students served through the school’s unique three-track system. (BYU-Idaho operates three semesters a year, and students are assigned to spend two on campus.)

• 29,793 online students through BYU-Pathway Worldwide.

• 63,629 total, another record.

This semester, the campus-based student body consists of 11,849 male students and 12,262 female students (49% percent and 51% percent respectively). The total number of married students is 5,068, comprising 21 percent of the total campus-based student population.

For more information, visit BYU-Idaho’s enrollment data webpage.

The following includes a news release from Idaho State Police.

VALLEY COUNTY — A 19-year-old teenager died Thursday night after failing to negotiate a curve and leaving the roadway while driving a silver Dodge Ram on No Business Road in Valley County, Idaho.

The vehicle was occupied by the driver and 20-year-old passenger, both from Donnelly, Idaho. The vehicle overturned down an embankment before coming to a stop against two trees.

Neither occupant was wearing a seat belt, and the driver succumbed to his injuries on scene. The passenger of the pickup was not injured in the crash.

The rollover involved a single vehicle and occurred at 9:06 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10.

Traffic on No Business Rd was slowed and blocked intermittently to allow emergency crews to clear the area.

The Idaho State Police was assisted by Valley County Sheriff’s Office and Donnelly Fire Department.

This incident remains under investigation by the Idaho State Police.

CALDWELL (Idaho Statesman) — Idaho State Police are investigating after a crash killed a Caldwell woman on Friday morning, law enforcement said.

The woman, 42, was driving west in a 2011 Ford Focus on Cleveland Boulevard in Caldwell when she “veered to the right and struck” a parked semitrailer, according to an ISP news release.

“The driver of the Ford Focus was not wearing a seat belt and succumbed to her injuries,” the release said.

Idaho’s seat belt usage rate is lower than the national average, according to Idaho Transportation Department crash statistics. Around half of those killed in car wrecks in 2022 were not wearing seat belts, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.