At $29,200 per pupil, Trego Elem ranks #53 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
15
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$29,200
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Trego Elem operates 1 public schools serving 15 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 Lincoln County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $29,200 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 40.9% local, 33.5% state, and 25.6% 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 92.3% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Trego School, enrolling 13 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 40% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (15 to 21 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 6.1 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $438,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 49.1% went to instruction, 37.7% to support services, and 0% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Trego School accounts for 86.7% of all Trego Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Trego Elem a distant remainder — means Trego 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.