Enrollment
3
Montana · 2024-25 NCES data
Other / mixed grade configuration · Cooke City, MT
Cooke City School
Federal NCES profile for Cooke City School, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 72/100.
2024-25 NCES dataOther / mixed grade configurationNCES 300735001023
👥 S:T ratio 88
🌟 Gifted program 30
🎓 Counselors 99
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →
The verdict
Cooke City School earns 72/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes smaller than 97% of Montana schools. It is also one of the smallest schools in Montana.
- 72
- Resource Index · Higher
- 3:1
- small classes for Montana
- 3
- students enrolled
Cooke City School has class sizes smaller than 97% of Montana schools. Computed live against every Montana school reporting to NCES.
School address
District: Cooke City Elem · Montana
NCES ID 300735001023 Verify on NCES CCD record →
Teachers (FTE)
1.0
Federal CCD staff survey
Students per teacher
3:1
vs 11.8:1 Montana avg
-75% vs state
Student-teacher ratio in context
How Cooke City School compares with Montana and U.S. medians
What stands out at Cooke City School
Small campus with unusually lean teacher staffing
Cooke City School sits near the smaller end of the Montana enrollment distribution while also reporting a lower student-teacher ratio than most state schools. That pairing is consistent with a compact, teacher-dense setting, though small scale can limit the number of specialized courses or support roles a campus can sustain. The program and staffing sections below show whether the lean ratio extends beyond classroom teachers into broader student services.
A combined-grade campus has a different support burden
Cooke City School serves a combined grade span rather than a conventional elementary, middle, or high-school band. That structure can require the same campus to cover transitions, counseling needs, and programs for students at substantially different developmental stages, so a single staffing ratio deserves more caution than it would at a narrower-grade school. Federal totals show the available people and programs, but not how those resources are divided among grade levels.
Cooke City School is a small combined-grade school in Cooke City, Montana, enrolling 3 students.
Classes run notably small here: at 3:1, Cooke City School is leaner than roughly 97% of Montana schools and 75% under the state's 11.8:1 norm, more adult attention per pupil than most peers.
This is a small campus: fewer students than 99% of Montana schools, with 3 enrolled.
Its Resource Investment Index outscores 99% of the 826 Montana schools with a score on record, a top-tier result on this measure.
Its student body is predominantly White (100% of enrollment) (diversity index 0/100).
Counselor coverage is strong, about 3 students per counselor, inside the American School Counselor Association's recommended 250:1.
Its district draws 20.7% of revenue from federal sources, an above-typical federal share that tends to track a higher-need student population.
Cooke City Elem operates only this one school, so Cooke City School has no district-mates to compare against locally. At 3 students, it is also a small operation, on the smaller end of Montana's single-school districts.
Sourced from NCES CCD, CRDC, and F-33 (federal records, not a quality verdict). How we source and compute this.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data + CRDC + F-33 · 2024-25
How Cooke City School compares
Cooke City School on the metrics families compare, against Montana and U.S. means.
| Metric | This school | vs Montana | Montana avg | U.S. avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students per teacher | 3:1 | ▼ 75% | 11.8:1 | 15.7:1 |
| Enrollment | 3 | top 99% | - | - |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25
3:1
Leaner classes than 99% of US schools, among the more generously staffed nationally.
3
Bigger than 0% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.
Equity indicators (what these measure)
Staffing depth
3:1
students per teacher
- 75% below state mean
Top 3% in Montana - lower ratio than 97% of state schools
Well under the widely cited 15:1 individualized-attention benchmark, among the leaner class loads nationally.
Funding equity
$20,714
per pupil, district-wide
- above Montana avg of $19,859
Somewhat above the U.S. public-school average, reflecting higher local or state investment per enrolled student.
Support staff
Counselors1.0 FTE
Per 3 students, the combined health-and-guidance staffing load for this school.
Discipline context
0
in-school suspensions + 0 out-of-school
Suspension rate: 0.0 per 100 students. Combined in-school and out-of-school rate: 0.0 per 100 students. Reported via the Civil Rights Data Collection.
Student demographics
White 100.0%
Largest group: White at 100.0% of enrollment.
Student-body diversity index 0.0/100
Simpson diversity index - at 0.0, Cooke City School is less mixed than the Montana school average of 23.6.
Programs
Funding & spending
District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Cooke City Elem, which includes Cooke City School.
$20,714
Per student
+4%
vs Montana
Avg $19,859
+17%
vs U.S.
Avg $17,658
Revenue mix
Local 45.3%
State 34.0%
Federal 20.7%
Source: NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey District-level finance · FY 2022-23 Per-pupil expenditure reflects the district-wide average. Individual school budgets are not reported at the federal level.
Similar other schools statewide
Matched by enrollment size and by staffing ratio across all of Montana, not just this city - a different peer set than the local comparisons above.
Similar enrollment (~3 students)
Similar student-teacher ratio (~3:1)
Next steps
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Frequently asked questions about Cooke City School
How many students attend Cooke City School?
Cooke City School has 3 students enrolled. It is a public school in Cooke City, MT.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cooke City School?
The student-teacher ratio at Cooke City School is 3:1, which is 75% lower than the Montana average of 11.8:1 and 81% lower than the national average of 15.7:1. Lower ratios generally mean more individual attention per student.
What is the racial and ethnic makeup of Cooke City School?
The largest demographic group at Cooke City School is White at 100.0% of enrollment, in Cooke City, MT.
What is the Resource Investment Index for Cooke City School?
Cooke City School has a Resource Investment Index of 72/100 (higher reported resources relative to schools nationally) based on 3 factors: student-teacher ratio, gifted-program reporting, counselor availability. Not a test-score or academic measure (national median ~41/100, see methodology).
What other schools are in Cooke City Elem?
None reported; Cooke City Elem operates only Cooke City School as a public school district in NCES's records.
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