Regular local school district · Roosevelt County
Poplar Elementary School District, MT: schools, enrollment and spending
Poplar Elementary School District runs 3 public schools with 570 students in grades PK to 8. Its ratio of 8.6 students per teacher is 5.6 lower than the Montana figure of 14.2.Listed in NCES data as "Poplar Elem".
At a glance
- Schools
- 3
- Students
- 570
- Teachers (FTE)
- 66
- Students per teacher
- 8.6
- MT: 14.2 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 400 4th Ave West, Poplar, MT 59255
- Phone
- (406)768-6730
- County
- Roosevelt County
- Locale
- Rural: Remote
- Grades offered
- PK to 8
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 3021240
- State district ID
- MT-0775
- Total staff (FTE)
- 138
- School counselors (FTE)
- 1.0About 570 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 4.0
Students per teacher compared
This district8.6
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 (649), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $13.9 million
- Federal revenue
- $7.5 million
- State revenue
- $4.3 million
- Local revenue
- $2.1 million
- Total spending
- $12.6 million
- Spending per pupil
- $19,481
- Salaries
- $7.1 million56.0% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $88,000
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 54.2%
- State: 30.9%
- Local: 14.9%
Montana overall
- Federal: 18.6%
- State: 39.3%
- Local: 42.1%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$19,481
Montana$15,680
United States$16,826
Schools in Poplar Elementary School District
By level: 2 middle, 1 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Poplar 5-6 SchoolCEP school | Middle | 5 to 6 | 124 | 7.8 |
| Poplar 7-8CEP school | Middle | 7 to 8 | 117 | 9.0 |
| Poplar SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 4 | 329 | 8.9 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Roosevelt County
- Wolf Point Elementary School District 480 students
- Poplar High School 275 students
- Wolf Point High School 200 students
- Culbertson Elementary School District 196 students
- Bainville K-12 Schools 183 students
- Frontier Elementary School District 129 students
- Brockton Elementary School District 93 students
- Culbertson High School 77 students
- Froid Elementary School District 61 students
- Brockton High School 49 students
- Froid High School 40 students
- Roose-Valley Sp Ed Coop
- Roosevelt
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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.