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Ashland, Montana - 2 schools
At $32,512 per pupil, Ashland Elem ranks #32 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
82
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$32,512
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ashland Elem operates 2 public schools serving 82 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 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 Rosebud County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $32,512 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 40 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 12.4% local, 22.8% state, and 64.7% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs.
a 42:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 67.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 1.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Ashland School, enrolling 71 students (85% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Ashland 7-8, at 13 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Ashland School accounts for 84.5% of all Ashland Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ashland Elem a distant remainder — means Ashland Elem-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Ashland Elem student-counselor ratio is 42:1 — 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.
Ashland Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 67.3% — 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.