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Elementary · Regular · Grades 1 to 2

Prickly Pear Elementary, East Helena, MT

Prickly Pear Elementary is a public elementary school in East Helena, part of East Helena K-12 School District. It enrolled 269 students in 2024-25, with 16.8 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "Prickly Pear Elem".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
269
Teachers (FTE)
16.0
Students per teacher
16.8
Grades
1 to 2

This school's ratio is 1.6 lower than the district figure of 18.4. The Montana average across schools is 14.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.8
District18.4
Montana14.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
2520 Valley Drive, East Helena, MT 59635
Phone
(406)227-7700
District
East Helena K-12 School District
County
Lewis and Clark County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Locale
Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID
300065501122
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
97
Reduced-price lunch
21
Free or reduced-price lunch
11843.9% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

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.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in East Helena K-12 School District

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

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.