Smith Valley Primary Schl

This page covers Smith Valley Primary Schl, a medium-sized elementary school in Kalispell, Montana. The school had 148 students in pre-K through 6 in 2024-25.

Smith Valley Elem runs 2 schools with a combined 190 students. Smith Valley Primary Schl is one of them.

White students make up 91% of enrollment at Smith Valley Primary Schl. The next largest groups are 6% multiracial. The White share in Flathead County as a whole is similar, at about 91%. Pick two students at random and there is a 16% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Teachers at the school number 12.2 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.1:1. That is close to the 11.9:1 average for elementary schools in Montana. The school's lunch program data list 47% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Flathead County report 75%.

Within Flathead County, the median household income is $73,925, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. In all, Flathead County has 48 public schools and roughly 14,957 students.

The shortest distance from Smith Valley Primary Schl to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to Smith Valley 7-8. Other public schools within five miles: 6.

Its NCES locale code is Rural: Distant: the school is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

Over 4 years, Smith Valley Primary Schl's enrollment dropped 12%, to 148. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.0:1 in 2020-21 to 12.1:1 in 2024-25.

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