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Turner, Montana - 2 schools
At $23,250 per pupil, Turner Elem ranks #87 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
38
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$23,250
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Turner Elem operates 2 public schools serving 38 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 Blaine County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $23,250 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 37.7% local, 39.5% state, and 22.7% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 400:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 24.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 89.2% White, 1.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Turner School, enrolling 29 students (73% of the district's total enrollment).
Turner School accounts for 72.5% of all Turner Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Turner Elem a distant remainder — means Turner 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.
Turner Elem student-counselor ratio is 400:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Turner Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 24.0% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Turner Elem is typically wider than the Turner Elem-aggregate figure suggests.