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Florence, Montana - 3 schools
An equity score of 34/100 ranks Florence-Carlton K-12 Schls #79 of 141 districts in Montana (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,943 per pupil, Florence-Carlton K-12 Schls ranks #321 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
790
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$11,943
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Florence-Carlton K-12 Schls operates 3 public schools serving 790 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Ravalli County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,943 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 45.3% local, 42.4% state, and 12.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 34/100, ranked #79 of 141 in Montana against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (3 AP courses district-wide), a 172.4:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 44.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.8% White, 5.6% Hispanic or Latino, 0.4% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Florence-Carlton Hs, with a diversity index of 22.3/100.
Its largest campus is Florence-Carlton El Schl, enrolling 301 students (42% of the district's total enrollment).
Florence-Carlton El Schl accounts for 38.1% of all Florence-Carlton K-12 Schls student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Florence-Carlton K-12 Schls-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.
Florence-Carlton K-12 Schls student-counselor ratio is 172:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Florence-Carlton K-12 Schls chronic absenteeism rate is 44.8% — 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.