Regular local school district · Blaine County
Harlem Elementary School District, MT: schools, enrollment and spending
Harlem Elementary School District runs 2 public schools with 454 students in grades PK to 8. Its ratio of 11.9 students per teacher is 2.3 lower than the Montana figure of 14.2.Listed in NCES data as "Harlem Elem".
At a glance
- Schools
- 2
- Students
- 454
- Teachers (FTE)
- 38
- Students per teacher
- 11.9
- MT: 14.2 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 610 1st Ave SE, Harlem, MT 59526
- Phone
- (406)353-2289
- County
- Blaine County
- Locale
- Rural: Remote
- Grades offered
- PK to 8
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 3013395
- State district ID
- MT-0030
- Total staff (FTE)
- 79
- School counselors (FTE)
- 2.0About 227 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 1.0
Students per teacher compared
This district11.9
Montana14.2
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (453), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $7.7 million
- Federal revenue
- $3.9 million
- State revenue
- $2.7 million
- Local revenue
- $1.0 million
- Total spending
- $7.8 million
- Spending per pupil
- $17,311
- Salaries
- $4.1 million52.0% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $0
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 50.5%
- State: 35.9%
- Local: 13.6%
Montana overall
- Federal: 18.6%
- State: 39.3%
- Local: 42.1%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$17,311
Montana$15,680
United States$16,826
Schools in Harlem Elementary School District
By level: 1 middle, 1 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Harlem 7-8CEP school | Middle | 7 to 8 | 104 | 11.6 |
| Harlem Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 6 | 350 | 12.5 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Blaine County
- Hays-Lodge Pole K-12 Schls School District 255 students
- Chinook Elementary School District 215 students
- Harlem High School 175 students
- Chinook High School 115 students
- Turner Elementary School District 40 students
- Zurich Elementary School District 23 students
- Turner High School 22 students
- Cleveland Elementary School District 11 students
- Bear Paw Elementary School District 10 students
- North Harlem Colony Elementary School District 3 students
- Bear Paw Cooperative
- Blaine
More in Montana
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.