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Sand Coulee, Montana - 5 schools
An equity score of 52/100 ranks Centerville Elem #30 of 141 districts in Montana (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,232 per pupil, Centerville Elem ranks #311 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
237
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$12,232
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Centerville Elem operates 5 public schools serving 237 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 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 Cascade County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,232 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 31.0% local, 45.5% state, and 23.5% 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 52/100, ranked #30 of 141 in Montana against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 368.8:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 19.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.8% White, 1.6% Hispanic or Latino, 0.3% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Centerville 6-8, with a diversity index of 30.1/100.
Its largest campus is Centerville School, enrolling 120 students (50% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Big Stone School, at 17 students, a 7x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Centerville School accounts for 49.6% of all Centerville Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Centerville Elem a distant remainder — means Centerville Elem-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Centerville Elem school enrollment varies 7.1× across entities
Centerville Elem school enrollment ranges from 17 students (lowest) to 120 students (highest), a spread of 103 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.
Centerville Elem student-counselor ratio is 369:1 — 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.
Centerville Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 19.6% — 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 Centerville Elem is typically wider than the Centerville Elem-aggregate figure suggests.