Bainville 7-8

Set in Bainville, Montana, Bainville 7-8 is a very small intermediate school, one of the schools within Bainville K-12 Schools. It educates 28 students across grades 7 through 8. That puts it 80% leaner than the typical public school in Montana, which averages around 139 students.

Bainville K-12 Schools runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 183 students. Bainville 7-8 is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Bainville 7-8 records that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Native American. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.3:1, putting Bainville 7-8 tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 21% of students at Bainville 7-8 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Roosevelt County (around 85%), the school's rate is south of typical.

In the area at large, census data for Roosevelt County shows the typical household earns roughly $57,063 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 25%. In all, Roosevelt County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,353 students), of which Bainville 7-8 is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bainville High School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Bainville 7-8's enrollment has climbed 8% since 2018, when it stood at 26 (now 28). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 0% to 7% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

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