Southside School

Southside School is an elementary school located in Wolf Point, MT, serving grades PK-3 with a total enrollment of 214 students. The school is part of the Wolf Point Elementary School District, which is ranked 333 out of 387 districts in the state and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger. Southside School has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Montana elementary schools in recent years, with a ranking of 292 out of 401 schools in the 2024-2025 school year.

Southside School's academic performance, as measured by the percentage of students proficient or better in MAST/English Language Arts and MAST/Mathematics, is significantly lower than the state averages. In 2024-2025, only 17.74% of Southside students were proficient or better in ELA, compared to the state average of 43.09%. In mathematics, 38.1% of Southside students were proficient or better, compared to the state average of 36.77%. The school also has a 100% free and reduced lunch rate, indicating that the student population comes from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. This is significantly higher than the state average and the nearby schools of Frazer Elementary (100%) and Frontier School (100%).

While Southside School has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 9.7 students per teacher in the 2024-2025 school year, and spends $12,077 per student, which is higher than the $11,693 spent per student at Vida School, the only other nearby school with available data, these factors have not translated into improved academic outcomes. The nearby Frazer Elementary school, while also serving a high-poverty student population, performs even worse academically than Southside School, while Vida School consistently outperforms the state averages in academic proficiency and has a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.