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Judith Gap, Montana - 2 schools
At $29,211 per pupil, Judith Gap Elem ranks #45 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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Schools
$29,211
Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Judith Gap Elem operates 2 public schools serving 20 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 Wheatland County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $29,211 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 61.3% local, 22.5% state, and 16.2% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 32.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.0% White, 2.0% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Judith Gap School, enrolling 25 students (96% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Judith Gap 7-8, at 1 students, a 25x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Judith Gap School accounts for 96.2% of all Judith Gap Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Judith Gap Elem a distant remainder — means Judith Gap 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.
Judith Gap Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 32.0% — 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.