At $25,693 per pupil, Wyola Elem ranks #78 of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending (Montana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
88
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$25,693
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Wyola Elem operates 2 public schools serving 88 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 Big Horn County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,693 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 393 Montana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Montana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 12.9% local, 12.2% state, and 75.0% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs.
. Demographically, the student body averages 0.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Wyola Elementary, enrolling 62 students (75% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 18.2% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (88 to 72 students), and the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.4 students per teacher despite the decline, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $5,560,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 20.4% went to instruction, 17.2% to support services, and 59.3% to capital outlay, a capital-heavy year, consistent with active construction, renovation, or major equipment purchases. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Wyola Elementary accounts for 70.5% of all Wyola Elem student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Wyola Elem a distant remainder — means Wyola Elem-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.