At $15,563 per pupil, Ovando Elem ranks #209 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
16
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$15,563
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ovando Elem operates 1 public schools serving 16 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 Powell County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,563 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 50.0% local, 35.4% state, and 14.6% 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 9.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Ovando School, enrolling 21 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 18.8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (16 to 19 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 11.4 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $255,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 80% went to instruction, 17.6% to support services, and 1.6% to capital outlay, unusually instruction-forward, with a larger-than-typical share reaching classrooms directly. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Ovando School accounts for 100.0% of all Ovando Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ovando Elem a distant remainder — means Ovando 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.
Ovando Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 9.5% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.