At $20,714 per pupil, Cooke City Elem ranks #124 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$20,714
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Cooke City Elem operates 1 public schools serving 7 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined 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 Park County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,714 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 45.3% local, 34.0% state, and 20.7% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Cooke City School, enrolling 3 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Cooke City School accounts for 42.9% of all Cooke City Elem student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Cooke City Elem-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Cooke City Elem student-counselor ratio is 3:1 — 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.