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Havre, Montana - 1 schools
At $13,926 per pupil, Cottonwood Elem ranks #248 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
25
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1
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$13,926
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Cottonwood Elem operates 1 public schools serving 25 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 Hill County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,926 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 41.6% local, 35.2% state, and 23.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 70.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 80.0% White, 5.0% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Cottonwood School, enrolling 20 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Cottonwood School accounts for 80.0% of all Cottonwood Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Cottonwood Elem a distant remainder — means Cottonwood 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.
Cottonwood Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 70.0% — 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.