At $20,022 per pupil, Harrison K-12 Schools ranks #135 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Harrison K-12 Schools operates 3 public schools serving 91 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 middle, 1 high 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 Madison County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,022 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 41.8% local, 44.7% state, and 13.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 29.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.0% White, 11.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Harrison High School, with a diversity index of 44.4/100.
Its largest campus is Harrison School, enrolling 36 students (59% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Harrison High School, at 9 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 8.8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (91 to 99 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 3.9 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,133,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 49.5% went to instruction, 32.2% to support services, and 7.3% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Harrison School accounts for 39.6% of all Harrison K-12 Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Harrison K-12 Schools-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. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Harrison K-12 Schools school enrollment varies 4.0× across entities
Harrison K-12 Schools school enrollment ranges from 9 students (lowest) to 36 students (highest), a spread of 27 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Harrison K-12 Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 29.6% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Harrison K-12 Schools is typically wider than the Harrison K-12 Schools-aggregate figure suggests.