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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Plains High School

Plains, Montana

NCES ID
302085000623
District
Plains K-12
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Plains High School is a public high school in Plains, Montana, run by Plains K-12. It enrols 138 students — the 83937th 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

138students

83937th nationally, tied with 82

Teachers

9.0FTE

84650th nationally, tied with 1,296

Students per teacher

15.3students

50353rd nationally, tied with 956

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 Plains K-12

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. 1Plains Elementary School247 students
  2. 2Plains High School138 students
  3. 3Plains 7-868 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+40.8%
  • Teachers+12.5%
  • Students per teacher+22.4%
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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.