Mountain View School

Mountain View School operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Red Lodge, Montana, overseen by Red Lodge Elem. Current enrollment sits at 192 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Red Lodge Elem runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 303 students. Mountain View School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mountain View School shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 6% Hispanic. Compared to Carbon County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Mountain View School logs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. The state averages around 11.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Carbon County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Carbon County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,261, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Mountain View School is one of 19 public schools in Carbon County (combined enrollment of about 1,301 students).

Roosevelt Junior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Mountain View School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mountain View School's enrollment has edged down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 206 (now 192). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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