Montana Education

Montana Education

Montana Office of Public Instruction

Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction:

District/School Information

Length of School Year: A minimum of 720 (K-3) and 1080 (4-12) school hours are required by Montana state law.

Number of Public School Districts: There are 422 public school districts in Montana.

Number of Public Schools: There are 828 public schools in Montana. ****

Number of Students Served in Public Schools: There are 141,807 public school students in Montana. ****

Number of Teachers in Public Schools: There are 10,521 public school teachers in Montana.****

Number of Charter Schools: There are 0 charter schools in Montana.

Per Pupil Spending: Montana spends $10,092 per pupil in public education. ****

Average Class Size: The average class size In Montana is 13.5 students per 1 teacher. ****

% of Title I Schools: 78.7% of schools in Montana are Title I Schools.****

% With Individualized Education Programs (IEP): 12.1% of students in Montana are on IEP's. ****

% in Limited-English Proficiency Programs: 2.7% of students in Montana are in limited-English Proficient Programs.****

% of Student Eligible for Free/Reduced Lunches: 39.6% of students in Montana schools are eligible for free/reduced lunches.****

Ethnic/Racial Student Breakdown****

White: 83.1%

Black: 1.1%

Hispanic: 2.8%

Asian/Pacific Islander: 1.2%

American Indian/Alaskan Native: 11.8%

School Assessment Data

Graduation Rate: 81.9% of all students entering high school in Montana graduate. **

ACT/SAT rank: 228.4 students per 1000 in Montana had a score of 25+ on the ACT or a 1780+ on the SAT. ***

8th grade NAEP assessment scores:****

Math: 293 is the scaled score for 8th grade students in Montana. The U.S. average was 283.

Reading: 273 is the scaled score for 8th grade students in Montana. The U.S. average was 264.

% of Students Who Attend College after High School: 51.8% of students in Montana go on to attend some level of college. ***

Private Schools

Number of Private Schools: There are 98 private schools in Montana.*

Number of Students Served in Private Schools: There are 9,274 private school students in Montana.*

Teacher Pay

The average teacher pay for the state of Montana was $37,770.00 in 2009.##

Each individual district in the state of Montana negotiates teacher salaries and establishes their own teacher salary schedule.

The following is an example of a teacher salary schedule in Montana provided by the Great Falls Public School District.

*Data courtesy of Education Bug .

**Data courtesy of ED.gov

***Data courtesy of the NCHEMS Information Center for Higher Education Policy Making and Analysis

****Data courtesy of the National Center for Education Statistics

##Average salary courtesy of Teacher Salary Info