NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools MT

Best-Resourced Schools in Box Elder, MT

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6 public K-12 schools in Box Elder from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
930
Students
42.2/100
Avg Resource Index
13.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Box Elder has more public-school enrollment than 2% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rocky Boy School enrolls 37.4% of Box Elder's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

The listed grade span is structurally narrow

Box Elder's 6 listed schools do not form a conventional mix of elementary, middle, and high-school campuses. The missing or thin grade bands make all-school city averages less representative of a typical K–12 pathway; district boundaries and nearby-city options may matter more for the grades not well represented here.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 41-point gap between Box Elder High School and Box Elder School shows the range hidden by Box Elder's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 98%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
56th percentile
Teacher staffing
73rd percentile

Rocky Boy School accounts for 37.4% of all Box Elder public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Box Elder-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Box Elder school enrollment varies 5.3× across entities

Box Elder school enrollment ranges from 66 students (lowest) to 348 students (highest), a spread of 282 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Box Elder student-teacher ratio is 13.5:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Box Elder High School 61
2. Rocky Boy 7-8 55
3. Rocky Boy High School 48
4. Rocky Boy School 35
5. Box Elder 7-8 34
6. Box Elder School 20

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Which Box Elder school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Box Elder High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Box Elder schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Box Elder, MT? ▼

Box Elder has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 930 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.