At $14,370 per pupil, Fortine Elem ranks #244 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
73
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$14,370
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Fortine Elem operates 2 public schools serving 73 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 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 Lincoln County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,370 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 24.4% local, 47.8% state, and 27.7% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 41.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.8% White, 1.1% Hispanic or Latino, 1.1% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Fortine School, enrolling 44 students (76% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Fortine 7-8, at 14 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Fortine School accounts for 60.3% of all Fortine Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Fortine Elem a distant remainder — means Fortine 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.
Fortine Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 41.5% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.