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Belgrade, Montana - 1 schools
At $16,769 per pupil, Springhill Elem ranks #186 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$16,769
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Springhill Elem operates 1 public schools serving 19 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 Gallatin County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,769 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 36.4% local, 50.0% state, and 13.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 56.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 62.5% White, 25.0% Hispanic or Latino, 6.3% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Springhill School, enrolling 16 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Springhill School accounts for 84.2% of all Springhill Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Springhill Elem a distant remainder — means Springhill 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.
Springhill Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 56.3% — 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.