East Helena K-12
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...
East Helena Grew 54% in Seven Years
Superintendent Dan Rispens told the Boulder Monitor in late 2024 that the district was buying buses. Not replacing old ones. Adding routes. East Helena K-12 had gone from four bus routes in 2001 to 10...
Helena HS Lost More Students Than Any Montana High School
Hawthorne Elementary, Helena's oldest school, was built in 1921 on Madison Avenue when the capital city's population was booming alongside the mining and railroad industries. In spring 2025, the schoo...
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...