Highwood School

As a very small K-5 school in Highwood, Montana, Highwood School teaches 62 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Highwood K-12. Enrollment runs roughly 63% below the state mean of about 167.

Highwood K-12 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 106 students. Highwood School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Highwood School logs that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Native American. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Highwood School has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Chouteau County (around 52%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Chouteau County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,218 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Chouteau County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 701 students), of which Highwood School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Highwood High School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Highwood School's enrollment has grew 19% since 2018, when it stood at 52 (now 62).

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Highwood School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.