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Opheim, Montana - 3 schools
At $30,467 per pupil, Opheim K-12 Schools ranks #40 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
28
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$30,467
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Opheim K-12 Schools operates 3 public schools serving 28 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 Valley County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $30,467 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 40 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 61.5% local, 32.4% state, and 6.1% 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 58.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.5% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Opheim High School, with a diversity index of 37.5/100.
Its largest campus is Opheim School, enrolling 29 students (83% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Opheim 7-8, at 2 students, a 15x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Opheim School accounts for 82.9% of all Opheim K-12 Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Opheim K-12 Schools a distant remainder — means Opheim K-12 Schools-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.
Opheim K-12 Schools school enrollment varies 15× across entities
Opheim K-12 Schools school enrollment ranges from 2 students (lowest) to 29 students (highest), a spread of 27 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Opheim K-12 Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 58.2% — 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.