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Fairfield, Montana - 2 schools
At $13,064 per pupil, Greenfield Elem ranks #280 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
68
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$13,064
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Greenfield Elem operates 2 public schools serving 68 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 Teton County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,064 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 33.7% local, 49.7% state, and 16.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 918:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 12.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.2% White, 1.6% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Greenfield School, enrolling 65 students (77% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Greenfield 7-8, at 19 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Greenfield School accounts for 77.4% of all Greenfield Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Greenfield Elem a distant remainder — means Greenfield 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.
Greenfield Elem student-counselor ratio is 918:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Greenfield Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 12.2% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.