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Conrad, Montana - 3 schools
An equity score of 31/100 ranks Conrad Elem #89 of 141 districts in Montana (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,606 per pupil, Conrad Elem ranks #334 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
342
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$11,606
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Conrad Elem operates 3 public schools serving 342 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 elementary, 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 Pondera County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,606 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 37.0% local, 44.0% state, and 19.0% 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 31/100, ranked #89 of 141 in Montana against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 202.8:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 46.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.1% White, 3.0% Hispanic or Latino, 1.4% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Utterback 4-6, with a diversity index of 28.4/100.
Its largest campus is Meadowlark School, enrolling 144 students (42% of the district's total enrollment).
Meadowlark School accounts for 42.1% of all Conrad Elem student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Conrad 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.
Conrad Elem student-counselor ratio is 203:1 — 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.
Conrad Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 46.0% — 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.