Big Sky Elementary

Big Sky Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in Billings, Montana. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 373 students. That compares with an average of about 167 students for elementary schools in Montana.

Billings Elem is the local district for Big Sky Elementary. It runs 29 schools with 11,377 students.

The share of White students at Big Sky Elementary is 61%, a majority. The school is also 14% Hispanic, 12% Native American, 9% multiracial, and 3% Black. That is lower than the 86% White share among all Yellowstone County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 59%.

The student-to-teacher ratio at Big Sky Elementary is 15.7:1, based on 23.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Montana, 11.9:1, is lower. Big Sky Elementary counts 59% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Yellowstone County, the average is 48%.

American Community Survey estimates for Yellowstone County show that the median household earns about $76,570 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Across Yellowstone County, 68 public schools serve about 23,853 students.

Big Sky Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Meadowlark School, about 1.1 miles away. Within five miles of Big Sky Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

A 4% rise took enrollment from 357 in 2020-21 to 373 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 17.0:1 to 15.7:1.

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