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Bonner, Montana - 2 schools
At $17,592 per pupil, Potomac Elem ranks #171 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
105
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$17,592
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Potomac Elem operates 2 public schools serving 105 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 Missoula County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,592 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 27.0% local, 33.7% state, and 39.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 44.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 75.5% White, 8.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Potomac School, enrolling 60 students (69% of the district's total enrollment).
Potomac School accounts for 57.1% of all Potomac Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Potomac Elem a distant remainder — means Potomac Elem-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.
Potomac Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 44.0% — 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.