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Chinook, Montana - 1 schools
At $18,044 per pupil, Chinook H S ranks #161 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
114
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$18,044
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Chinook H S operates 1 public schools serving 114 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 Blaine County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,044 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 64.6% local, 34.4% state, and 1.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 230:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 24.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 82.6% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Chinook High School, enrolling 115 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Chinook High School accounts for 100.0% of all Chinook H S student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Chinook H S a distant remainder — means Chinook 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.
Chinook H S student-counselor ratio is 230:1 — 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.
Chinook H S chronic absenteeism rate is 24.3% — 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 Chinook H S is typically wider than the Chinook H S-aggregate figure suggests.