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Mosby, Montana - 1 schools
At $46,000 per pupil, Ross Elem ranks #10 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Ross Elem operates 1 public schools serving 1 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 Garfield County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $46,000 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 40 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 11.8% local, 61.2% state, and 27.1% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Ross School, enrolling 2 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Ross School accounts for 100.0% of all Ross Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ross Elem a distant remainder — means Ross 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.