At $13,947 per pupil, Elliston Elem ranks #255 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
19
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$13,947
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Elliston Elem operates 1 public schools serving 19 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 Powell County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,947 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 32.8% local, 31.0% state, and 36.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 47.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.7% White, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Elliston School, enrolling 19 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Elliston School accounts for 100.0% of all Elliston Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Elliston Elem a distant remainder — means Elliston 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.
Elliston Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 47.4% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.