At $27,911 per pupil, Bainville K-12 Schools ranks #58 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
157
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$27,911
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Bainville K-12 Schools operates 3 public schools serving 157 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 Roosevelt County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $27,911 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 28.4% local, 66.1% state, and 5.5% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 61:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 18.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.2% White, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Bainville School, with a diversity index of 26.7/100.
Its largest campus is Bainville School, enrolling 108 students (59% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Bainville 7-8, at 28 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 9.6% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (157 to 172 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 0.9 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,766,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 53.1% went to instruction, 33.7% to support services, and 8% 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.
Bainville School accounts for 59.0% of all Bainville K-12 Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Bainville K-12 Schools a distant remainder — means Bainville 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.
Bainville K-12 Schools school enrollment varies 3.9× across entities
Bainville K-12 Schools school enrollment ranges from 28 students (lowest) to 108 students (highest), a spread of 80 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.
Bainville K-12 Schools student-counselor ratio is 61:1 — 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.
Bainville K-12 Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 18.9% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Bainville K-12 Schools is typically wider than the Bainville K-12 Schools-aggregate figure suggests.