Lewis & Clark School

Lewis & Clark School is one of the sprawling elementary-level communitys in Missoula, Montana, run under Missoula Elem, with 429 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 157% larger than the state mean of about 167.

Lewis & Clark School is one of 14 schools operated by Missoula Elem, a district that instructs 5,293 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lewis & Clark School logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Native American, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Lewis & Clark School higher than the state norm the norm. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Missoula County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Missoula County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,598 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Missoula County runs 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,099 students), of which Lewis & Clark School is one.

The closest other public school is Sentinel High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lewis & Clark School.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lewis & Clark School's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 475 (now 429). White enrollment moved from 89% to 84% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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