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Box Elder, Montana - 1 schools
At $21,504 per pupil, Box Elder H S ranks #109 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
108
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$21,504
Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Box Elder H S operates 1 public schools serving 108 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high 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 Hill County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,504 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 20.5% local, 37.6% state, and 41.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 86:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 1.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Box Elder High School, enrolling 86 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Box Elder High School accounts for 79.6% of all Box Elder H S student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Box Elder H S a distant remainder — means Box Elder H S-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Box Elder H S student-counselor ratio is 86:1 — 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.