At $18,813 per pupil, Dutton/Brady K-12 Schools ranks #155 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
134
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$18,813
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Dutton/Brady K-12 Schools operates 5 public schools serving 134 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 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 Teton County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,813 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 47.6% local, 32.8% state, and 19.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 48.4:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 23.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.9% White, 3.7% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Dutton/Brady High School, with a diversity index of 21.1/100.
Its largest campus is Dutton/Brady Elementary, enrolling 36 students (30% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 17.9% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (134 to 110 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 1.7 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,922,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 49.1% went to instruction, 32% to support services, and 10.2% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Dutton/Brady Elementary accounts for 26.9% of all Dutton/Brady K-12 Schools student enrollment
That concentration means Dutton/Brady K-12 Schools-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. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Dutton/Brady K-12 Schools school enrollment varies 2.4× across entities
Dutton/Brady K-12 Schools school enrollment ranges from 15 students (lowest) to 36 students (highest), a spread of 21 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Dutton/Brady K-12 Schools student-counselor ratio is 48:1 — 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.
Dutton/Brady K-12 Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 23.1% — 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 Dutton/Brady K-12 Schools is typically wider than the Dutton/Brady K-12 Schools-aggregate figure suggests.