Billings Opportunity School

As a minimally staffed four-year high school in Billings, Montana, Billings Opportunity School serves 78 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Billings H S. Enrollment runs roughly 67% below the state mean of about 238.

Billings H S runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 5,444 students. Billings Opportunity School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Billings Opportunity School logs that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 10% Native American. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Billings Opportunity School has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Yellowstone County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Yellowstone County put median household income runs about $76,570, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Yellowstone County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,853 students), Billings Opportunity School is one campus in the mix.

Billings Multilingual Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Billings Opportunity School.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.