Morning Star School

As a high-enrollment elementary school, Morning Star School serves students in Bozeman, Montana. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 482 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 189% bigger than the 167-student average for elementary schools in Montana.

Morning Star School reports to Bozeman Elem, which has 11 schools and 4,689 students.

By race and ethnicity, Morning Star School is 86% White. Other groups make up 7% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. In Gallatin County overall, the White share is about 89%. A diversity index of 26% means there is a 26% chance two randomly chosen students at Morning Star School are from different groups.

A staff of 30.5 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 15.8:1. Across elementary schools in Montana, the average ratio is 11.9:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 9%. The average for public schools in Gallatin County is 25%.

In the wider Gallatin County area, the median household earns about $93,528 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 54% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Morning Star School shares Gallatin County with 47 other public schools.

Sacajawea Middle School is about 0.6 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 11%. The school's ratio dropped from 17.3:1 to 15.8:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.

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