Summary
Browning Elementary is a public elementary school in Browning, Montana, serving grades 2-3 with 258 students. The school is part of the Browning Elementary School District, which is ranked 332 out of 387 school districts in the state and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Browning Elementary has consistently low academic performance, ranking in the bottom 10-15% of Montana elementary schools in recent years. In the 2024-2025 school year, only 2.42% of Browning Elementary students were proficient or better in English Language Arts, compared to the state average of 43.09%, and only 2.38% were proficient or better in Mathematics, compared to the state average of 36.77%. The nearby Napi School, also part of the Browning Elementary School District, has slightly better but still low academic performance. In contrast, the more distant Hidden Lake Elementary and East Glacier Park School, which are in different school districts, have higher academic performance, with proficiency rates closer to the state averages.
The Browning Elementary School District appears to have limited resources, as evidenced by the low per-student spending at Browning Elementary ($16,361 in 2018-2019) and Napi School ($11,206 in 2018-2019), as well as the relatively high student-teacher ratios ranging from 11.3 to 12.0. This is in contrast to the more distant Hidden Lake Elementary, which had a lower per-student spending of $9,750 in 2018-2019, and East Glacier Park School, which had a student-teacher ratio of 10.4. The extremely high rates of free and reduced-price lunch recipients at Browning Elementary and the surrounding schools suggest that the community faces significant socioeconomic challenges, which may be a contributing factor to the low academic performance.
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