Medicine Crow Middle School

Medicine Crow Middle School, a high-enrollment junior high in Billings, Montana, one of the schools within Billings Elem, educates 517 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Montana's public schools average about 139 students each, so Medicine Crow Middle School sits 272% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 29 schools in Billings Elem (11,377 students total), Medicine Crow Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Medicine Crow Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 71%; the rest looks like 10% Native American, 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 61% of students at Medicine Crow Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Yellowstone County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Around the school, Yellowstone County reports that median household income runs about $76,570, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Yellowstone County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,853 students), of which Medicine Crow Middle School is one.

Bitterroot School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Medicine Crow Middle School.

Medicine Crow Middle School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Medicine Crow Middle School has decreased 27%, going from 704 students in 2018 to 517 in 2025.

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