An equity score of 22/100 ranks Butte Elem #118 of 141 districts in Montana (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,585 per pupil, Butte Elem ranks #361 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,966
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
$10,585
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Butte Elem operates 7 public schools serving 2,966 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 6 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 Silver Bow County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,585 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 40 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 40.4% local, 48.3% state, and 11.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 22/100, ranked #118 of 141 in Montana against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 371:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 50.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.4% White, 8.5% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Kennedy School, with a diversity index of 49.6/100.
Its largest campus is East Middle School, enrolling 664 students (23% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Kennedy School, at 219 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
East Middle School accounts for 22.4% of all Butte Elem student enrollment
That concentration means Butte Elem-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: middle. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Butte Elem school enrollment varies 3.0× across entities
Butte Elem school enrollment ranges from 219 students (lowest) to 664 students (highest), a spread of 445 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.
Butte Elem student-counselor ratio is 371:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Butte Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 50.1% — 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.