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Winnett, Montana - 3 schools
At $25,031 per pupil, Winnett K-12 Schools ranks #68 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
60
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$25,031
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Winnett K-12 Schools operates 3 public schools serving 60 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Montana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 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 Petroleum County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,031 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 36.0% local, 46.9% state, and 17.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), and 12.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 98.2% White, 1.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Winnett High School, with a diversity index of 10.0/100.
Its largest campus is Winnett School, enrolling 37 students (54% of the district's total enrollment).
Winnett School accounts for 53.6% of all Winnett K-12 Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Winnett K-12 Schools a distant remainder — means Winnett 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.
Winnett K-12 Schools school enrollment varies 2.8× across entities
Winnett K-12 Schools school enrollment ranges from 13 students (lowest) to 37 students (highest), a spread of 24 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Winnett K-12 Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 12.1% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.