Montana · EDFacts 2021-22

Chronic Absenteeism in Montana

The 100 schools with the highest chronic absenteeism rates in Montana, ranked by the share of students missing 15 or more school days a year.

100.0%
Highest rate
100
Schools above 50%
100
Schools ranked

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The 100 Montana schools listed here average 71.9% chronic absenteeism, against a national school average of 30.9%, and 100 of them sit above the 50% critical line.

71.9%
average across these 100 schools
30.9%
national school average
100.0%
highest rate (Browning Middle School)
100
schools above 50%
# School Absent %
1 Browning Middle School Browning 100.0%
2 Lame Deer School Lame Deer 100.0%
3 Crow Agency School Crow Agency 100.0%
4 Longfellow School Great Falls 100.0%
5 Browning Elementary Browning 100.0%
6 Lame Deer High School Lame Deer 100.0%
7 Lodge Pole School Hays 100.0%
8 Rocky Boy High School Box Elder 100.0%
9 Poplar 7-8 Poplar 100.0%
10 Box Elder High School Box Elder 100.0%
11 Hays-Lodge Pole High Sch Hays 100.0%
12 Lame Deer 7-8 Lame Deer 100.0%
13 Rocky Boy 7-8 Box Elder 100.0%
14 Plenty Coups High School Pryor 100.0%
15 Heart Butte Elementary Heart Butte 100.0%
16 Lodge Grass 7-8 Lodge Grass 100.0%
17 Lodge Grass High School Lodge Grass 97.7%
18 Hardin Middle School Hardin 95.8%
19 Browning High School Browning 94.8%
20 Box Elder 7-8 Box Elder 93.9%
21 Kw-Vc Elementary Browning 90.5%
22 Whittier School Great Falls 88.2%
23 Box Elder School Box Elder 86.2%
24 Mountain View School Great Falls 81.9%
25 Stevensville High School Stevensville 81.0%
26 Napi School Browning 79.9%
27 Pablo Elementary Pablo 79.5%
28 Hardin High School Hardin 79.0%
29 Victor High School Victor 77.0%
30 K William Harvey Elem Ronan 74.3%
31 Poplar 5-6 School Poplar 74.2%
32 Hardin Primary Hardin 73.9%
33 Cherry Valley School Polson 73.7%
34 Ashland School Ashland 73.2%
35 Riverside Middle School Billings 72.9%
36 Harlem High School Harlem 72.6%
37 Southside School Wolf Point 72.0%
38 Kennedy School Butte 71.7%
39 Cut Bank Middle School Cut Bank 71.7%
40 Polson Middle School Polson 70.6%
41 Poplar High School Poplar 69.8%
42 Swan River 6-8 Bigfork 69.2%
43 Ronan Middle School Ronan 68.5%
44 Wolf Point 7-8 Wolf Point 68.5%
45 Harlem 7-8 Harlem 68.3%
46 Ronan High School Ronan 68.1%
47 Washington School Billings 67.9%
48 Conrad High School Conrad 67.5%
49 Poplar School Poplar 66.6%
50 Harlem Elementary School Harlem 66.3%
51 Seeley-Swan High School Seeley Lake 65.9%
52 Wolf Point High School Wolf Point 65.5%
53 Central School Helena 65.3%
54 Arlee High School Arlee 65.2%
55 Cut Bank High School Cut Bank 65.0%
56 Broadwater School Helena 64.7%
57 Somers Middle School Somers 64.1%
58 Whitehall Elementary Whitehall 64.1%
59 C M Russell High School Great Falls 63.9%
60 East Helena High School East Helena 63.8%
61 Twin Bridges School Twin Bridges 63.3%
62 Arlee 7-8 Arlee 63.2%
63 East Middle School Great Falls 62.4%
64 Big Sky High School Missoula 62.3%
65 Hellgate High School Missoula 62.0%
66 Great Falls High School Great Falls 61.9%
67 Polson High School Polson 61.5%
68 Ponderosa School Billings 61.0%
69 Bonner 6-8 Bonner 61.0%
70 Stevensville 7-8 Stevensville 60.7%
71 Belgrade High School Belgrade 60.6%
72 Culbertson School Culbertson 60.5%
73 Utterback 7-8 Conrad 60.5%
74 Swan River School Bigfork 60.4%
75 Townsend 7-8 Townsend 59.6%
76 Rocky Boy School Box Elder 58.9%
77 Frenchtown High School Frenchtown 58.5%
78 Potomac School Bonner 58.3%
79 C R Anderson Middle Schl Helena 58.2%
80 Northside School Wolf Point 58.2%
81 St Ignatius High School St Ignatius 57.9%
82 Billings Sr High School Billings 57.7%
83 Superior High School Superior 57.3%
84 St Ignatius Elementary School St Ignatius 57.1%
85 Darby High School Darby 56.9%
86 Corvallis High School Corvallis 56.7%
87 Porter Middle School Missoula 56.5%
88 Noxon School Noxon 56.5%
89 Rossiter School Helena 56.4%
90 Meadow Hill Middle School Missoula 55.8%
91 Arlee Elementary Arlee 55.8%
92 Bench School Billings 55.7%
93 Sentinel High School Missoula 55.6%
94 Smith School Helena 55.3%
95 St Regis School St Regis 55.2%
96 Butte High School Butte 54.9%
97 Kircher School Miles City 54.9%
98 Lone Rock Middle School Stevensville 54.8%
99 Central Heights School Billings 54.7%
100 Valley View School Great Falls 54.2%
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Source: U.S. Department of Education, EDFacts — Chronic Absenteeism Data (SY 2021-22). Schools with fewer than 50 students excluded. Percentage = chronically absent students / total enrollment U.S. Department of Education, EDFacts — Chronic Absenteeism Data (SY 2021-22). Schools with fewer than 50 students excluded. Percentage = chronically absent students / total enrollment

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