At $19,000 per pupil, Biddle Elem ranks #153 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$19,000
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Biddle Elem operates 1 public schools serving 8 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined 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 Powder River County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,000 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 36.5% local, 41.3% state, and 22.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 9.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 81.8% White, 18.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Biddle School, enrolling 11 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Biddle School accounts for 100.0% of all Biddle Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Biddle Elem a distant remainder — means Biddle Elem-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.
Biddle Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 9.1% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.