Public school / Middle
Smith Valley 7-8
Kalispell, Montana
- NCES ID
- 300285000101
- District
- Smith Valley Elem
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Smith Valley 7-8 is a public middle school in Kalispell, Montana, run by Smith Valley Elem. It enrols 56 students — the 91123rd 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
56
Teachers
3.0
Students per teacher
18.7
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 Smith Valley 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.
- 1Smith Valley Primary Schl168 students
- 2Smith Valley 7-856 students
- Enrollment−42.9%
- Teachers−62.5%
- Students per teacher+49.6%
Where this sits
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