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Jordan, Montana - 1 schools
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Kester Elem operates 1 public schools serving 1 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined 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 Garfield County.
The funding mix is 8.0% local, 30.9% state, and 61.1% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs.
. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Kester School, enrolling 4 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Kester School accounts for 100.0% of all Kester Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Kester Elem a distant remainder — means Kester 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.