At $26,308 per pupil, Lame Deer H S ranks #74 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
169
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$26,308
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Lame Deer H S operates 1 public schools serving 169 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Rosebud County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $26,308 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 11.0% local, 34.2% state, and 54.8% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs.
a 170:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 2.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Lame Deer High School, enrolling 170 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Lame Deer High School accounts for 100.0% of all Lame Deer H S student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lame Deer H S a distant remainder — means Lame Deer H S-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Lame Deer H S student-counselor ratio is 170:1 — 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.