Southside School

Southside School is a public elementary school in Wolf Point, Montana. The school serves pre-K through 3. Enrollment is 214 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Montana enroll about 167 students on average.

Wolf Point Elem is the district for Southside School. It has 3 schools and 480 students.

Native American students are 77% of those enrolled at Southside School. Beyond that, enrollment is 13% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, and 5% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 38, compared with 70 nationally.

Southside School reports a ratio of 9.7 students per teacher, from 22 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in Montana, the average ratio is 11.9:1. Lunch program data show 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is 15 points above the 85% average for public schools in Roosevelt County.

Census data for Roosevelt County show the median household earns about $57,063 a year, roughly 21% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 25%. Public schools in Roosevelt County number 22, with about 2,353 students.

Wolf Point 7-8 is the nearest public school to Southside School, about 0.2 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number 5.

Locale data from NCES put Southside School in rural territory far from an urban area (Rural: Remote).

Enrollment was 214 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 226. The ratio of students to teachers went from 11.3:1 to 9.7:1 over the same years.

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