Elementary · Montana
Central School
Free meals for allCentral School, a public elementary school in Helena, Montana: grades pre-k–5, 242 students, 13.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Helena Elem.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 242
- Teachers (FTE)
- 17.4
- Students per teacher
- 13.9
- Grades
- Pre-K–5
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 67% of elementary schools in Montana
Median 12.1 · 418 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 57% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 67% of elementary schools in Montana
Median 120 · 421 schools compared
Smaller than 82% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Small city
- Run by
- Helena Elem
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Helena Elem.
Location
- Address
- 1325 Poplar, Helena, MT 59601
- Phone
- (406)324-1230
- City or town
- Helena
- County
- Lewis and Clark County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-K–5 | 183 | 13.8 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 245 | 19.2 | |
Broadwater SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 207 | 12.5 |
Bryant SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 288 | 14.1 |
| K–5 | 198 | 17.8 | |
Mount Ascension Learning Ac ELMostly virtual | K–5 | 0 | — |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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