Heart Butte High School

Set in Heart Butte, Montana, Heart Butte High School is a micro-enrollment senior high, operated by Heart Butte K-12 Schools. It serves 41 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 83% leaner than the state mean of about 238.

Heart Butte K-12 Schools runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 119 students. Heart Butte High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Heart Butte High School lists that 98% of students identify as Native American, making the school strongly Native American-majority; the rest consists of 2% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Heart Butte High School shows 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.3:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Pondera County (around 61%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Pondera County put the typical household earns roughly $52,338 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Pondera County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 820 students), of which Heart Butte High School is one.

Heart Butte 6-8 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Heart Butte High School's enrollment has ticked down 39% since 2018, when it stood at 67 (now 41). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 7.4:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Heart Butte High School typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.