Elementary · Montana
Prickly Pear Elem
Prickly Pear Elem, a public elementary school in East Helena, Montana: grades 1–2, 269 students, 16.2 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of East Helena K-12.
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
- 269
- Teachers (FTE)
- 16.6
- Students per teacher
- 16.2
- Grades
- 1–2
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 87% of elementary schools in Montana
Median 12.1 · 418 schools compared
More students per teacher than 67% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 73% of elementary schools in Montana
Median 120 · 421 schools compared
Smaller than 78% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades 1–2
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Rural area near a city
- Run by
- East Helena K-12
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with East Helena K-12.
Location
- Address
- 2520 Valley Drive, East Helena, MT 59635
- Phone
- (406)227-7700
- City or town
- East 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3–5 | 428 | 20.2 | |
| Pre-K–K | 161 | 12.4 | |
Warren SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 276 | 15.5 |
| Pre-K–5 | 217 | 13.5 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 313 | 15.5 | |
Bryant SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 288 | 14.1 |
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).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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