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Dupuyer, Montana - 1 schools
At $18,250 per pupil, Dupuyer Elem ranks #156 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
21
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$18,250
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Dupuyer Elem operates 1 public schools serving 21 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 Pondera County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,250 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 23.3% local, 36.9% state, and 39.8% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 2.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.9% White, 2.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Dupuyer School, enrolling 47 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Dupuyer School accounts for 100.0% of all Dupuyer Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Dupuyer Elem a distant remainder — means Dupuyer 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.
Dupuyer Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 2.1% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.