East Side School

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Livingston, Montana, East Side School hosts 249 students from grades 3 through 5, one of the schools within Livingston Elem. Compared to the state average of about 167 students per school, that is 49% above typical.

Livingston Elem runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 777 students. East Side School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, East Side School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest breaks down as 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the surrounding community, census data for Park County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,047 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Park County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,656 students), of which East Side School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sleeping Giant Middle Sch, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around East Side School.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at East Side School has fell 29%, going from 349 students in 2018 to 249 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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