Public Schools in Montana
826 schools · 397 districts · 150,098 students
Largest Schools in Montana
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Billings West High School
Billings
Billings Sr High School
Billings
Great Falls High School
Great Falls
Flathead High School
Kalispell
Skyview High School
Billings
Glacier High School
Kalispell
C M Russell High School
Great Falls
Capital High School
Helena
Sentinel High School
Missoula
Gallatin High School
Bozeman
Frequently Asked Questions
Montana has 826 public schools across 397 districts, serving 150,098 students.
The largest school in Montana is Billings West High School with 2,269 students. Montana has 826 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 50%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.