At $14,160 per pupil, Seeley Lake Elem ranks #250 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
181
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$14,160
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Seeley Lake Elem operates 2 public schools serving 181 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 $14,160 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 40.5% local, 37.3% 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.
a 147.9:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 42.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 81.4% White, 9.6% Hispanic or Latino, 0.4% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Seeley Lake Elementary, enrolling 122 students (77% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Seeley Lake 7-8, at 37 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Seeley Lake Elementary accounts for 67.4% of all Seeley Lake Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Seeley Lake Elem a distant remainder — means Seeley Lake 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.
Seeley Lake Elem student-counselor ratio is 148:1 — 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.
Seeley Lake Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 42.6% — 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.