Public school / Primary
Prickly Pear Elem
East Helena, Montana
- NCES ID
- 300065501122
- District
- East Helena K-12
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Prickly Pear Elem is a public primary school in East Helena, Montana, run by East Helena K-12. It enrols 272 students — the 69408th largest of 837 public schools in Montana.
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
272
Teachers
17.0
Students per teacher
16.0
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.
Within East Helena 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.
- 1East Helena High School580 students
- 2East Valley Middle School482 students
- 3Radley Elementary School440 students
- 4Prickly Pear Elem272 students
- 5Eastgate School178 students
- Enrollment+177.6%
- Teachers+112.5%
- Students per teacher+28.0%
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