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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Kessler Elementary School

Helena, Montana

NCES ID
300000500337
District
Helena Elem
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Kessler Elementary School is a public primary school in Helena, Montana, run by Helena Elem. It enrols 238 students — the 73734th largest of 837 public schools in Montana.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

238students

73734th nationally, tied with 117

Teachers

19.0FTE

67148th nationally, tied with 2,240

Students per teacher

12.5students

24342nd nationally, tied with 848

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

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Within Helena Elem

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1C R Anderson Middle Schl1,067 students
  2. 2Helena Middle School691 students
  3. 3Jim Darcy School470 students
  4. 4Four Georgians School455 students
  5. 5Rossiter School391 students
  6. 6Central School319 students
  7. 7Warren School304 students
  8. 8Bryant School291 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Montana median across 837 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+142.9%
  • Teachers+137.5%
  • Students per teacher0.0%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.