Barbara Gilligan 7-8

As a micro-enrollment middle-grades school in Brockton, Montana, Barbara Gilligan 7-8 instructs 17 students from grades 7 through 8, run under Brockton Elem. Compared to the state average of about 139 students per school, that is 88% smaller than typical.

Brockton Elem runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 93 students. Barbara Gilligan 7-8 is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Barbara Gilligan 7-8 logs that 88% of students identify as Native American, making the school strongly Native American-majority. The remainder consists of 12% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Barbara Gilligan 7-8 shows 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 3.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.3:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Roosevelt County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Roosevelt County put 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%. Barbara Gilligan 7-8 is one of 22 public schools in Roosevelt County (combined enrollment of about 2,353 students).

Barbara Gilligan School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Barbara Gilligan 7-8's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 17 (now 17). Asian enrollment moved from 0% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 7.7:1 in 2018 to 3.9:1 in 2025.

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