At $11,692 per pupil, Deerfield Elem ranks #333 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Deerfield Elem operates 1 public schools serving 13 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 Fergus County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,692 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 20.1% local, 71.3% state, and 8.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 27.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Deerfield School, enrolling 11 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Deerfield School accounts for 84.6% of all Deerfield Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Deerfield Elem a distant remainder — means Deerfield 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.
Deerfield Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 27.3% — 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 Deerfield Elem is typically wider than the Deerfield Elem-aggregate figure suggests.