At $33,940 per pupil, Colstrip H S ranks #39 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
151
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$33,940
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Colstrip H S operates 1 public schools serving 151 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 Rosebud County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $33,940 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 40 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 56.0% local, 40.9% state, and 3.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 155:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 25.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 50.3% White, 7.7% Hispanic or Latino, 2.6% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Colstrip High School, enrolling 155 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Colstrip High School accounts for 100.0% of all Colstrip H S student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Colstrip H S a distant remainder — means Colstrip H S-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Colstrip H S student-counselor ratio is 155:1 — 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.
Colstrip H S chronic absenteeism rate is 25.8% — 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 Colstrip H S is typically wider than the Colstrip H S-aggregate figure suggests.