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Montana Is 14,337 Students Below Its Growth Trajectory
In 2023, Montana's schools looked like they had dodged the worst of it. Enrollment hit 150,573 that year, a record in the nine-year dataset, driven by a post-pandemic bounce of 3,566 students in a sin...
Hispanic Students Are Montana's Only Growing Demographic
In West Yellowstone, the gateway town where Yellowstone National Park meets U.S. Highway 20, nearly half the students in the local school are Hispanic. That share, 47.0%, would be unremarkable in New ...
Bozeman HS Grew 32% While Montana Shrank
In 2017, Bozeman voters approved a $125 million bond to build a second high school. By the time Gallatin High opened its doors in fall 2020, the city's population had grown 43% in a decade. The bet wa...