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Babb School

Public Grades PK, KG-6
285th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 401 Montana Elementary Schools
Better than 29% of Montana elementary schools
Summary

Babb School is a small elementary school in Babb, MT, serving grades PK-6 with just 14 students. Despite its small size, the school has some unique strengths and challenges worth noting for parents considering educational options in the area.

One of Babb School's key strengths is its impressive performance in mathematics, with 50% of students proficient or better in 2024-2025 - significantly higher than the 3.14% proficiency rate in the Browning Elementary School District and the 36.77% state average. However, the school lags behind in English Language Arts and Science proficiency. Babb School also has a 100% free/reduced lunch rate, indicating a high-poverty student population, and spends $19,080 per student - substantially more than the state average.

Despite its high per-student spending and low student-teacher ratio, Babb School's statewide ranking has been declining in recent years, from 215 out of 246 elementary schools in 2012-2013 to 285 out of 401 in 2024-2025. This suggests the school is struggling to keep up with the performance of other elementary schools in Montana. The stark contrast in test scores, with excellence in math but struggles in other subjects, indicates a potential imbalance in the school's curriculum and instructional focus that may need to be addressed.

14
Students ?
9.3
Student/teacher ratio ?
$31,391
Per pupil spending ?
100%
Free/discounted lunch ?
 4063 Hwy 89 N
       Babb, MT  59411

(406) 732-5539

District: Browning Elementary


Students who attend Babb School usually attend:

Middle:    Browning Middle School
High:    Browning High School
Racial breakdown:

American Indian:
100.0%
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At a glance
▲ Ranking trend: Improving — 10th percentile in 2010 → 29th in 2025
Strengths
✓Ranking is trending up — up 19 percentile points since 2010
✓Small classes — about 9 students per teacher
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Montana average (25% vs 40% meeting standards)
!Science scores 38 pts below the Montana average
Students meeting standards (2024-2025) ?
This school25%
District avg4%
Montana avg40%
285th of 401
Montana public elementary schools ?
Bottom 29%▲ up 23 pts since 2015
From bottom 6% (2015) to bottom 29% (2025)
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★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
2nd of 5Elementary Schools in the Browning Elementary
332nd of 387Browning Elementary among Montana districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMontana percentileRating
202532.9285 of 40128.9%★☆☆☆☆
202431.4158 of 21225.5%★☆☆☆☆
20235.7315 of 3325.1%☆☆☆☆☆
20212.9347 of 3562.5%☆☆☆☆☆
20159.0271 of 2875.6%☆☆☆☆☆
201314.0215 of 24612.6%★☆☆☆☆
201213.8216 of 24411.5%★☆☆☆☆
201114.0222 of 24710.1%☆☆☆☆☆
201012.6217 of 24110.0%☆☆☆☆☆
By subject vs Montana (2024-2025) ?
Mathematics50%+13 vs state
English Language Arts12%-31 vs state
Science0%-38 vs state

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Students who attend Babb School usually go on to attend:

Middle : Browning Middle School
High : Browning High School

In the 2024-25 school year, 14 students attended Babb School.

Babb School ranks 285th of 401 Montana elementary schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 1 star out of 5.

Students at Babb School are 100% American Indian.


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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Montana Office of Public Instruction.

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