Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Will James Middle School, Billings, MT
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 634
- Teachers (FTE)
- 37.0
- Students per teacher
- 17.1
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is 1.1 higher than the district figure of 16.0. The Montana average across schools is 14.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 1200 30th Street West, Billings, MT 59102
- Phone
- (406)281-6100
- County
- Yellowstone County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 300387000904
School meals
- Free lunch
- 250
- Reduced-price lunch
- 40
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 29045.7% 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 middle schools in Billings Elementary School District
- Lewis & Clark Middle School 741 students
- Ben Steele Middle School 740 students
- Castle Rock Middle School 691 students
- Medicine Crow Middle School 517 students
- Riverside Middle School 436 students
- Billings Multilingual Academy 21 students
Middle schools elsewhere in Billings
- Elder Grove 7-8 Elder Grove Elementary School District
- Elysian Middle School Elysian Elementary School District
- Canyon Creek 6-8 Canyon Creek Elementary School District
- Yellowstone Academy 7-8 Yellowstone Academy Elementary
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.