Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Shepherd Middle School, Shepherd, MT

Shepherd Middle School is a public middle school in Shepherd, part of Shepherd Elementary School District. It enrolled 180 students in 2024-25, with 12.9 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 180
Teachers (FTE): 14.0
Students per teacher: 12.9
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.6 lower than the district figure of 14.5. The Montana average across schools is 14.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.9

District14.5

Montana14.2

United States15.3

School details

Address: 7842 Shepherd Road, Shepherd, MT 59079
Phone: (406)373-5873
District: Shepherd Elementary School District
County: Yellowstone County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Distant
NCES school ID: 302394001083

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School meals

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

Free lunch: 63
Reduced-price lunch: 4
Free or reduced-price lunch: 6737.2% 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.

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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.