Gallatin Gateway 7-8

Gallatin Gateway 7-8 operates as a rural-scale 6-8 campus in Gallatin Gateway, Montana, run under Gallatin Gateway Elem. Current enrollment sits at 33 students spanning grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 139 students per school, that is 76% below typical.

Within Gallatin Gateway Elem, which oversees 2 schools and 136 students, Gallatin Gateway 7-8 is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Gallatin Gateway 7-8 logs that nearly all students (97%) are White. Other groups include 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 89% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.3:1 average. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Gallatin County runs at roughly 25%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Gallatin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,528 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Gallatin County's 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,170 students), Gallatin Gateway 7-8 is one campus in the mix.

Gallatin Gateway School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gallatin Gateway 7-8 has increased 94%, going from 17 students in 2018 to 33 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 5.9:1 in 2018 to 7.6:1 today.

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