Lima School

Lima School operates as a very small primary school in Lima, Montana, one of the schools within Lima K-12 Schools. Current enrollment sits at 21 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Montana's public schools average about 167 students each, so Lima School sits 87% below that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Lima K-12 Schools (39 students total), Lima School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lima School logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 10% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Beaverhead County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 4.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Lima School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Beaverhead County's rate of about 42%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Beaverhead County put median household earnings sit near $61,268, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Beaverhead County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,182 students), Lima School is one campus in the mix.

Lima High School 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 an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lima School has shrank 32%, going from 31 students in 2018 to 21 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 3% to 10% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 6.6:1 in 2018 to 4.8:1 today.

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