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Twin Bridges, Montana - 3 schools
An equity score of 46/100 ranks Twin Bridges K-12 Schools #43 of 141 districts in Montana (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,771 per pupil, Twin Bridges K-12 Schools ranks #203 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
210
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$15,771
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Twin Bridges K-12 Schools operates 3 public schools serving 210 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 elementary, 1 high 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 Madison County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,771 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 49.8% local, 41.0% state, and 9.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 46/100, ranked #43 of 141 in Montana against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 74.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 36.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 89.2% White, 3.5% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Twin Bridges School, with a diversity index of 25.6/100.
Its largest campus is Twin Bridges School, enrolling 90 students (40% of the district's total enrollment).
Twin Bridges School accounts for 40.4% of all Twin Bridges K-12 Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Twin Bridges K-12 Schools-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.
Twin Bridges K-12 Schools student-counselor ratio is 74:1 — 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.
Twin Bridges K-12 Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 36.6% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.