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Box Elder, Montana - 2 schools
An equity score of 61/100 ranks Rocky Boy Elem #16 of 141 districts in Montana (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $22,283 per pupil, Rocky Boy Elem ranks #99 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
486
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$22,283
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Rocky Boy Elem operates 2 public schools serving 486 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 Hill County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,283 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 5.5% local, 22.1% state, and 72.4% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs. The district's equity score is 61/100, ranked #16 of 141 in Montana against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 105.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 58.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 2.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Rocky Boy School, enrolling 348 students (83% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Rocky Boy 7-8, at 73 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Rocky Boy School accounts for 71.6% of all Rocky Boy Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Rocky Boy Elem a distant remainder — means Rocky Boy 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.
Rocky Boy Elem student-counselor ratio is 105:1 — 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.
Rocky Boy Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 58.9% — 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.