Ben Steele Middle School

Billings, Montana, is home to Ben Steele Middle School, a high-enrollment middle school. The school covers grades 6 through 8 and reported 740 students in 2024-25. On average, middle schools in Montana enroll around 139, and this school is 432% above that mark.

Ben Steele Middle School falls under Billings Elem, which has 29 schools enrolling 11,377 students.

The share of students at Ben Steele Middle School who are White is 85%. Other groups make up 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 4% Native American. Yellowstone County residents are about 86% White, a similar share. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 28%.

The school's 40.1 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.4:1. Statewide, middle schools in Montana average 11.3:1. Income data for the school show 24% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Yellowstone County is 48%.

Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Yellowstone County show that median household income comes to about $76,570, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Yellowstone County counts 68 public schools with about 23,853 students.

Arrowhead School sits about 2.5 miles from Ben Steele Middle School. Ben Steele Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

In the federal locale system, Ben Steele Middle School is coded City: Mid-size, for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 8%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 20.1:1 in 2020-21, and 18.4:1 in 2024-25.

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