Frenchtown Elementary School

Located at 16495 Main Street, in Frenchtown, Montana, Frenchtown Elementary School is a roomy primary school that teaches 415 students (grades pre-K through 3), run under Frenchtown K-12 Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 149% above the state mean of about 167.

Frenchtown K-12 Schools comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,314 students; Frenchtown Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Frenchtown Elementary School reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 38% of students at Frenchtown Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Across the wider county, Missoula County reports that median household earnings sit near $75,598, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Missoula County's 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,099 students), Frenchtown Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Frenchtown Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Frenchtown Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Frenchtown Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 485 (now 415). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.