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Trout Creek, Montana - 2 schools
At $23,929 per pupil, Trout Creek Elem ranks #81 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
66
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$23,929
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Trout Creek Elem operates 2 public schools serving 66 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 Sanders County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $23,929 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 49.9% local, 24.8% state, and 25.3% 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 81.3% White, 3.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Trout Creek School, enrolling 32 students (89% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Trout Creek 7-8, at 4 students, a 8x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Trout Creek School accounts for 48.5% of all Trout Creek Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Trout Creek Elem a distant remainder — means Trout Creek 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.