Enrollment
59
Montana · 2024-25 NCES data
High school (grades 9-12) · Clyde Park, MT
Shields Valley High Schl
Federal NCES profile for Shields Valley High Schl, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 58/100.
2024-25 NCES dataHigh school (grades 9-12)NCES 300093301026
👥 S:T ratio 61
🌟 Gifted program 30
🎓 Counselors 76
📋 Attendance 66
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →
The verdict
Shields Valley High Schl earns 58/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes near the Montana median.
- 58
- Resource Index · Higher
- 9.8:1
- students per teacher
- 59
- students enrolled
Shields Valley High Schl has class sizes near the Montana median. Computed live against every Montana school reporting to NCES.
School address
District: Shields Valley H S · Montana
NCES ID 300093301026 Verify on NCES CCD record →
Teachers (FTE)
6.0
Federal CCD staff survey
Students per teacher
9.8:1
vs 11.8:1 Montana avg
-17% vs state
Student-teacher ratio in context
How Shields Valley High Schl compares with Montana and U.S. medians
What stands out at Shields Valley High Schl
Scale and staffing sit near the state mainstream
Shields Valley High Schl is neither an extreme outlier in enrollment nor in student-teacher ratio among Montana schools. Its profile therefore turns on the other dimensions rather than on scale alone: economic need, counselor coverage, program access, attendance, and district finance. This middle placement is useful because it prevents the campus from being mislabeled as unusually large, small, crowded, or teacher-dense when the federal comparison does not support that claim.
No single support indicator dominates
Shields Valley High Schl's available federal support indicators do not reveal an extreme in advanced-course access, specialist staffing, chronic absence, or IDEA enrollment. The most responsible reading is therefore component by component rather than a sweeping verdict: current counseling availability, health support, program schedules, and attendance policy still warrant direct confirmation. Missing or middle-range federal fields are not evidence that services are either strong or weak.
Shields Valley High Schl is a mid-sized high school in Clyde Park, Montana, enrolling 59 students.
Class sizes run a bit leaner than typical: 9.8:1 puts it in the smaller third of Montana schools by student-teacher ratio.
With 59 students, its enrollment sits close to the Montana median campus size.
Its Resource Investment Index lands in the upper third of 826 scored Montana schools.
Its student body is predominantly White (93% of enrollment) (diversity index 13/100).
No Advanced Placement courses are reported for this campus in the federal data.
Counselor coverage is strong, about 118 students per counselor, inside the American School Counselor Association's recommended 250:1.
13.6% of students were chronically absent in the 2021-22 collection, in line with the post-pandemic national range.
The surrounding Shields Valley H S spends $28,520 per pupil, 44% above the Montana average, a better-resourced district than most.
Shields Valley H S operates only this one school, so Shields Valley High Schl has no district-mates to compare against locally.
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 Shields Valley High Schl compares
Shields Valley High Schl on the metrics families compare, against Montana and U.S. means.
| Metric | This school | vs Montana | Montana avg | U.S. avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students per teacher | 9.8:1 | ▼ 17% | 11.8:1 | 15.7:1 |
| Enrollment | 59 | top 57% | - | - |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25
9.8:1
Leaner classes than 90% of US schools, among the more generously staffed nationally.
59
Bigger than 6% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.
Equity indicators (what these measure)
Staffing depth
9.8:1
students per teacher
- 17% below state mean
Top 32% in Montana - lower ratio than 68% of state schools
Well under the widely cited 15:1 individualized-attention benchmark, among the leaner class loads nationally.
Engagement
13.6%
chronically absent (missed 10%+ of school days)
In the 10-15% range, above the pre-pandemic national baseline but within the broader post-pandemic picture.
Funding equity
$28,520
per pupil, district-wide
- above Montana avg of $19,859
Well above the U.S. public-school average, reflecting substantially higher local or state investment per enrolled student.
Support staff
Counselors0.5 FTE
Student-support staffing from the Civil Rights Data Collection.
Discipline context
2
in-school suspensions + 0 out-of-school
Suspension rate: 3.4 per 100 students. Combined in-school and out-of-school rate: 3.4 per 100 students. Reported via the Civil Rights Data Collection.
Student demographics
White 93.2%
Hispanic or Latino 5.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander 1.7%
Largest group: White at 93.2% of enrollment.
Student-body diversity index 12.8/100
Simpson diversity index - at 12.8, Shields Valley High Schl is less mixed than the Montana school average of 23.6.
Programs
AP program Not offered
Funding & spending
District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Shields Valley H S, which includes Shields Valley High Schl.
$28,520
Per student
+44%
vs Montana
Avg $19,859
+62%
vs U.S.
Avg $17,658
Revenue mix
Local 58.7%
State 40.8%
Federal 0.5%
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 high 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 (~59 students)
Similar student-teacher ratio (~9.8:1)
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Frequently asked questions about Shields Valley High Schl
How many students attend Shields Valley High Schl?
Shields Valley High Schl has 59 students enrolled. It is a high school in Clyde Park, MT.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Shields Valley High Schl?
The student-teacher ratio at Shields Valley High Schl is 9.8:1, which is 17% lower than the Montana average of 11.8:1 and 38% 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 Shields Valley High Schl?
The largest demographic group at Shields Valley High Schl is White at 93.2% of enrollment, in Clyde Park, MT.
What is the Resource Investment Index for Shields Valley High Schl?
Shields Valley High Schl has a Resource Investment Index of 58/100 (higher reported resources relative to schools nationally) based on 4 factors: student-teacher ratio, gifted-program reporting, counselor availability, chronic absenteeism. Not a test-score or academic measure (national median ~41/100, see methodology).
What other schools are in Shields Valley H S?
None reported; Shields Valley H S operates only Shields Valley High Schl as a public school district in NCES's records.
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