Gardiner School

Gardiner School operates as a close-knit primary school in Gardiner, Montana, one of the schools within Gardiner Elem. Current enrollment sits at 70 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Montana's public schools average about 167 students each, so Gardiner School sits 58% below that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Gardiner Elem (96 students total), Gardiner School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gardiner School logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. The state averages around 11.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 34% of students at Gardiner School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Park County's rate of about 43%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Park County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,047 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Park County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,656 students), of which Gardiner School is one.

Gardiner 7-8 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Gardiner School's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 77 (now 70). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 7.7:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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