Dept of Corrections-Youth operates 2 public schools serving 30 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high, 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 Lewis and Clark County.
a 27:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 51.9% White, 1.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Pine Hills Youth Corr Facil Hs accounts for 90.0% of all Dept of Corrections-Youth student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Dept of Corrections-Youth a distant remainder — means Dept of Corrections-Youth-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Dept of Corrections-Youth student-counselor ratio is 27:1 — 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.