Cooke City School

Located at 101 Broadway, in Cooke City, Montana, Cooke City School is an one-room-style elementary-level community that instructs 3 students (grades pre-K through 8), run under Cooke City Elem. Enrollment runs roughly 98% below the state mean of about 167.

Cooke City School sits inside Cooke City Elem, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Cooke City School logs that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. By comparison, Park County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Cooke City School records 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 3.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.9:1 average.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Park County put median household income runs about $70,047, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Park County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,656 students), of which Cooke City School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Nye School, around 29.5 miles off.

Cooke City School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 40%: 5 students in 2018 compared to 3 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 100% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 5.0:1 in 2018 to 3.0:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.