Plains 7-8

Plains 7-8 is a low-enrollment intermediate school in Plains, Montana, one of the schools within Plains K-12. The school instructs 65 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 53% below the typical public school in Montana, which averages around 139 students.

Plains 7-8 is one of 3 schools operated by Plains K-12, a district that educates 404 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Plains 7-8 lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Sanders County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school reports having 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. The state averages around 11.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Sanders County's rate of about 91%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Sanders County) records that median household earnings sit near $57,476, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Sanders County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,321 students), of which Plains 7-8 is one.

Nearest neighbor: Plains Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Plains 7-8.

Plains 7-8 operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Plains 7-8's enrollment has edged down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 82 (now 65). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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