NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools MT

Best-Resourced Schools in Cut Bank, MT

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

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

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Schools

761

Students

46.9/100

Avg Resource Index

12.2:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact system with teacher-dense staffing

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Cut Bank has more public-school enrollment than 1% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Cut Bank is a comparatively small school market by total enrollment, yet its average student-teacher ratio is lower than most cities in the national comparison set. Small scale can make that staffing pattern easier to sustain, but it can also limit the breadth of specialized programs available at any one campus. The school list below shows whether students are concentrated in one combined-grade campus or distributed across separate elementary, middle, and high-school settings.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

8 of Cut Bank's 11 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 24-point gap between Glacier Elementary School and Cut Bank High School shows the range hidden by Cut Bank'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 99%
School count: Top 35%
Resource Index average: 78th percentile
Teacher staffing: 87th percentile

H C Davis Elementary accounts for 27.5% of all Cut Bank public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Cut Bank-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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Cut Bank school enrollment varies 21× across entities

Cut Bank school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 209 students (highest), a spread of 199 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Cut Bank student-teacher ratio is 12.2:1 — 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Glacier Elementary School	61	10	Combined	Cut Bank Elem
2.	Glendale School	58	12	Combined	Browning Elem
3.	Big Sky School	56	22	Combined	Browning Elem
4.	Zenith Elementary	55	11	Combined	Cut Bank Elem
5.	Horizon Elementary	47	15	Combined	Cut Bank Elem
6.	Mountain View Elementary	45	10	Combined	Mountain View Elem
7.	Hidden Lake Elementary	42	26	Combined	Cut Bank Elem
8.	H C Davis Elementary	40	209	Combined	Cut Bank Elem
9.	Anna Jeffries Elementary	38	118	elementary	Cut Bank Elem
10.	Cut Bank High School	37	183	high	Cut Bank H S
11.	Cut Bank Middle School	37	145	middle	Cut Bank Elem

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Cut Bank

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

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Which Cut Bank school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Glacier Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Cut Bank 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 Cut Bank, MT? ▼

Cut Bank has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 761 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.2:1.

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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.