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Ramsay, Montana - 2 schools
At $12,561 per pupil, Ramsay Elem ranks #296 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
166
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$12,561
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ramsay Elem operates 2 public schools serving 166 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 Silver Bow County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,561 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 35.5% local, 43.3% state, and 21.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 79:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 44.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.2% White, 3.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Ramsay School, enrolling 116 students (73% of the district's total enrollment).
Ramsay School accounts for 69.9% of all Ramsay Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ramsay Elem a distant remainder — means Ramsay 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.
Ramsay Elem student-counselor ratio is 79:1 — 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.
Ramsay Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 44.6% — 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.