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Wolf Point, Montana - 2 schools
At $21,915 per pupil, Frontier Elem ranks #103 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
127
Total Enrollment
2
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$21,915
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Frontier Elem operates 2 public schools serving 127 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 Roosevelt County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,915 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 28.5% local, 31.3% state, and 40.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 258:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 32.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 13.1% White, 2.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Frontier School, enrolling 108 students (84% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Frontier 7-8, at 21 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Frontier School accounts for 83.7% of all Frontier Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Frontier Elem a distant remainder — means Frontier 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.
Frontier Elem student-counselor ratio is 258:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Frontier Elem is typically wider than the Frontier Elem-aggregate figure suggests.
Frontier Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 32.8% — 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.