At $17,707 per pupil, Broadus Elem ranks #166 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
150
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$17,707
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Broadus Elem operates 2 public schools serving 150 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 Powder River County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,707 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 32.0% local, 49.8% state, and 18.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 227:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 21.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.8% White, 6.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Broadus School, enrolling 129 students (84% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Broadus 7-8, at 24 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Broadus School accounts for 84.3% of all Broadus Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Broadus Elem a distant remainder — means Broadus 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.
Broadus Elem student-counselor ratio is 227:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Broadus Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 21.1% — 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 Broadus Elem is typically wider than the Broadus Elem-aggregate figure suggests.