Irle Elementary School

Irle Elementary School is a high-enrollment primary school in Glasgow, Montana, one of the schools within Glasgow K-12 Schools. The school works with 380 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 128% larger than the state mean of about 167.

Across the 3 schools in Glasgow K-12 Schools (778 students total), Irle Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Irle Elementary School lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 8% multiracial, 8% Native American, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Valley County) logs that median household earnings sit near $71,695, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Valley County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,115 students), Irle Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Glasgow Middle School, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Irle Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Irle Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 396 (now 380). Over the same period, the White share fell from 85% to 81%. Class-load math has grew: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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