At $12,340 per pupil, Savage Elem ranks #310 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
100
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$12,340
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Savage Elem operates 2 public schools serving 100 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 Richland County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,340 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 35.4% local, 42.4% state, and 22.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
. Demographically, the student body averages 91.3% White, 4.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Savage School, enrolling 64 students (69% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 5% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (100 to 95 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 0.6 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $1,251,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 54.7% went to instruction, 31.8% to support services, and 1.3% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Savage School accounts for 64.0% of all Savage Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Savage Elem a distant remainder — means Savage Elem-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. 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.