Emily Dickinson School

Emily Dickinson School operates as a sizable elementary school in Bozeman, Montana, run under Bozeman Elem. Current enrollment sits at 531 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 218% bigger than the typical public school in Montana, which averages around 167 students.

Bozeman Elem comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 4,689 students; Emily Dickinson School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Emily Dickinson School shows that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Native American, 2% Asian. By comparison, Gallatin County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Emily Dickinson School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. Roughly 23% of students at Emily Dickinson School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Gallatin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,528 per year, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Gallatin County's 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,170 students), Emily Dickinson School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bridger Charter School, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Emily Dickinson School.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 11%: 478 students in 2018 compared to 531 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 78% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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