At $32,362 per pupil, Plenty Coups H S ranks #43 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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Schools
$32,362
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Plenty Coups H S operates 1 public schools serving 58 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 Big Horn County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $32,362 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 15.9% local, 33.0% state, and 51.1% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs.
a 64:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 1.6% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Plenty Coups High School, enrolling 64 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Plenty Coups High School accounts for 100.0% of all Plenty Coups H S student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Plenty Coups H S a distant remainder — means Plenty Coups 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.
Plenty Coups H S student-counselor ratio is 64:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.