Belt School

Belt School, a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Belt, Montana, part of Belt Elem, works with 178 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

Within Belt Elem, which oversees 3 schools and 257 students, Belt School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Belt School lists that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cascade County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Cascade County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,690, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Cascade County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,577 students), of which Belt School is one.

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

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Belt School has declined 5%, going from 187 students in 2018 to 178 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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