At $17,251 per pupil, Culbertson Elem ranks #173 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
187
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$17,251
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Culbertson Elem operates 2 public schools serving 187 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 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 Roosevelt County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,251 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 31.0% local, 40.2% state, and 28.8% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 98:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 42.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 62.1% White, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 1.5% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Culbertson School, enrolling 124 students (63% of the district's total enrollment).
Culbertson School accounts for 63.3% of all Culbertson Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Culbertson Elem a distant remainder — means Culbertson 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. 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.
Culbertson Elem student-counselor ratio is 98:1 — 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.
Culbertson Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 42.0% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.