Bainville School

Bainville School is a small elementary school in Bainville, Montana, part of Bainville K-12 Schools. The school works with 108 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Montana's public schools average about 167 students each, so Bainville School sits 35% below that benchmark.

Within Bainville K-12 Schools, which oversees 3 schools and 183 students, Bainville School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Bainville School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). The remainder is composed of 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 5% Native American. By comparison, Roosevelt County as a whole is about 33% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Bainville School higher than the state norm the norm. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Roosevelt County (around 85%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Roosevelt County shows the typical household earns roughly $57,063 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 25%. Bainville School is one of 22 public schools in Roosevelt County (combined enrollment of about 2,353 students).

Bainville 7-8 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Bainville School.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bainville School has grew 37%, going from 79 students in 2018 to 108 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 96% to 85%. Class-load math has widened: from 6.9:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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