Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 6

Heart Butte Elementary, Heart Butte, MT

CEP schoolHeart Butte Elementary is a public elementary school in Heart Butte, part of Heart Butte K-12 Schools. It enrolled 60 students in 2024-25, with 8.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 60
Teachers (FTE): 7.0
Students per teacher: 8.6
Grades: PK to 6

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 8.5. The Montana average across schools is 14.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school8.6

District8.5

Montana14.2

United States15.3

School details

Address: 1 School Road, Heart Butte, MT 59448
Phone: (406)338-2200
District: Heart Butte K-12 Schools
County: Pondera County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Remote
NCES school ID: 300009900414

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 60
Reduced-price lunch: 0
Free or reduced-price lunch: 60100.0% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.