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Hot Springs, Montana - 3 schools
At $20,218 per pupil, Hot Springs K-12 ranks #126 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
166
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$20,218
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Hot Springs K-12 operates 3 public schools serving 166 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 Sanders County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,218 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 26.5% local, 38.4% state, and 35.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 187:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 45.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 63.4% White, 2.7% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Hot Springs High School, with a diversity index of 53.6/100.
Its largest campus is Hot Springs School, enrolling 111 students (56% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Hot Springs 7-8, at 26 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Hot Springs School accounts for 56.3% of all Hot Springs K-12 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Hot Springs K-12 a distant remainder — means Hot Springs K-12-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.
Hot Springs K-12 school enrollment varies 4.3× across entities
Hot Springs K-12 school enrollment ranges from 26 students (lowest) to 111 students (highest), a spread of 85 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.
Hot Springs K-12 student-counselor ratio is 187:1 — 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.
Hot Springs K-12 chronic absenteeism rate is 45.3% — 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.
Hot Springs K-12 has 3 schools, including 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle. Total enrollment is 166 students.
How much does Hot Springs K-12 spend per student?
Hot Springs K-12 spends $20,218 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Hot Springs K-12?
Hot Springs K-12 students are 63.4% White, 2.7% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American, averaged across 3 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.