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Wisdom, Montana - 1 schools
At $23,444 per pupil, Wisdom Elem ranks #85 of 394 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$23,444
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Wisdom Elem operates 1 public schools serving 9 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 Beaverhead County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $23,444 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 30.6% local, 32.8% state, and 36.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 33.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.9% White, 11.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Wisdom School, enrolling 9 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Wisdom School accounts for 100.0% of all Wisdom Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Wisdom Elem a distant remainder — means Wisdom 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.
Wisdom Elem chronic absenteeism rate is 33.3% — 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.