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Helena Elementary School District, MT: schools, enrollment and spending
Helena Elementary School District runs 16 public schools with 5,100 students in grades PK to 8. Its ratio of 15.9 students per teacher is 1.7 higher than the Montana figure of 14.2.Listed in NCES data as "Helena Elem".
At a glance
- Schools
- 16
- Students
- 5,100
- Teachers (FTE)
- 320
- Students per teacher
- 15.9
- MT: 14.2 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 1325 Poplar Street, Helena, MT 59601
- Phone
- (406)324-2001
- County
- Lewis and Clark County
- Locale
- City: Small
- Grades offered
- PK to 8
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 3000005
- State district ID
- MT-0487
- Total staff (FTE)
- 644
- School counselors (FTE)
- 15.0About 340 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 15.0
Students per teacher compared
This district15.9
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 (5,123), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $75.2 million
- Federal revenue
- $13.4 million
- State revenue
- $28.6 million
- Local revenue
- $33.1 million
- Total spending
- $70.8 million
- Spending per pupil
- $13,828
- Salaries
- $41.0 million57.8% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $61.6 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 17.9%
- State: 38.1%
- Local: 44.0%
Montana overall
- Federal: 18.6%
- State: 39.3%
- Local: 42.1%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$13,828
Montana$15,680
United States$16,826
Schools in Helena Elementary School District
By level: 3 middle, 13 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Broadwater SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 207 | 12.9 |
| Bryant SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 288 | 14.4 |
| C R Anderson Middle Schl | Middle | 6 to 8 | 962 | 16.6 |
| Central SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 242 | 14.2 |
| Four Georgians School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 482 | 17.2 |
| Hawthorne School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 183 | 14.1 |
| Helena Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 701 | 17.1 |
| Helena Montessori Charter Schl | Elementary | K to 5 | 198 | 18.0 |
| Jefferson School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 245 | 20.4 |
| Jim Darcy School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 473 | 18.9 |
| Kessler Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 235 | 13.8 |
| Mount Ascension Learning Ac Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 0 | |
| Mount Ascension Learning Ac Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 22 | 22.0 |
| Rossiter School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 369 | 17.6 |
| Smith School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 217 | 13.6 |
| Warren SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 276 | 16.2 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Lewis and Clark County
- Helena High School 2,373 students
- East Helena K-12 School District 1,972 students
- Lincoln K-12 Schools 147 students
- Augusta Elementary School District 98 students
- Trinity Elementary School District 43 students
- Augusta High School 33 students
- Dept of Corrections-Youth 30 students
- Auchard Creek Elementary School District 13 students
- Wolf Creek Elementary School District 7 students
- Dept of Corrections-Adult 0 students
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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. 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.