At $13,571 per pupil, Marion Elem ranks #270 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
163
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$13,571
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Marion Elem operates 2 public schools serving 163 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 Flathead County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,571 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 40.5% local, 36.0% state, and 23.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 580:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 37.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.6% White, 1.3% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Marion School, enrolling 114 students (80% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Marion 7-8, at 29 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Marion School accounts for 69.9% of all Marion Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Marion Elem a distant remainder — means Marion Elem-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. 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.
Marion Elem student-counselor ratio is 580:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Marion Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 37.9% — 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.