At $17,331 per pupil, Alberton K-12 Schools ranks #170 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
166
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$17,331
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Alberton K-12 Schools operates 3 public schools serving 166 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Mineral County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,331 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 36.2% local, 41.2% state, and 22.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 54.7:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 67.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.6% White, 2.9% African American, 1.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Alberton School, with a diversity index of 22.8/100.
Its largest campus is Alberton School, enrolling 89 students (54% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 14.5% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (166 to 142 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 1.6 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,041,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 55.4% went to instruction, 34% to support services, and 3% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Alberton School accounts for 53.6% of all Alberton K-12 Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Alberton K-12 Schools a distant remainder — means Alberton K-12 Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Alberton K-12 Schools school enrollment varies 2.6× across entities
Alberton K-12 Schools school enrollment ranges from 34 students (lowest) to 89 students (highest), a spread of 55 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Alberton K-12 Schools student-counselor ratio is 55:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Alberton K-12 Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 67.1% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.