Government directory/Montana/Independent school district
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 180666

Fishtail Elem.

Independent school district in Montana · Census county area: Stillwater.

Independent school districtSchool districtFunctioning
School system at a glance

Students, schools, and public money.

Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.

15students in the finance record
1operating schools connected
$23,667current spending per pupil
Montana current school trustees

2 trustees published for Fishtail Elementary.

Montana OPI labels this a current trustee report and publishes the term dates shown below. Election.org connects the governing system to this component district through OPI's exact school-system and NCES crosswalk—never by guessing from the name.

Current trustee rows
2
Rows with a term date
2
OPI system ID
0912
Page entityFishtail ElemNCES 3010800 · OPI legal entity 0853
Governing systemFishtail ElementaryThe trustee roster is published at this system level.
Who governs this system

Current trustees and published terms

2026-08-30
School trustee

John Dinsdale

May 7, 2024 — May 4, 2027

School trustee

Mike Lister

May 7, 2024 — May 6, 2025

Public board access role

School system clerk

Karena A Econom

OPI publishes this role with the trustee directory. Election.org omits the person-level phone and email fields from its copy.

Still missing for a complete civic page

The roster is real. The full decision record is not connected yet.

  • Authorized seat count, seat numbers or areas, election method, and confirmed vacancies
  • Upcoming filings, candidates, certified results, and campaign disclosures
  • Attendance and trustee-seat boundaries resolvable from a street address
  • Meetings, agendas, minutes, policies, recorded votes, budgets, contracts, and vendors
  • Complaint, records-request, accessibility, correction, and change-history workflows

The Montana Office of Public Instruction report labels its rows current and publishes trustee names plus term start and end dates at the school-system level. OPI's fiscal-year 2027 legal-entity report connects each system ID to one or more component district NCES IDs. Election.org repeats the sourced system board on each exact component-district page and never relabels a missing row as a vacancy. Election.org persists trustee and clerk names, published roles, and trustee term dates. Person-level email addresses and phone numbers from the source report are intentionally omitted. Only organization-level websites are retained.

Six years of enrollment and school finance

See what changed—not just one year.

Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment15114.3% higher than 2019
Current spending / pupil$23,66719.6% lower than 2019 after inflation · 1.4% lower than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$454.0K93.2% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$0.0No reported debt in 2019 or 2024
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 7; 2020: 15; 2021: 14; 2022: 14; 2023: 13; 2024: 1516116201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $29,448; 2020: $17,292; 2021: $24,393; 2022: $24,882; 2023: $27,163; 2024: $23,667$31,150$23,370$15,590201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

201914.5% F16.8% S68.8% L
202020.2% F21.4% S58.3% L
202124.7% F27.5% S47.8% L
202232.2% F25.0% S42.8% L
202331.4% F28.2% S40.4% L
202428.6% F34.9% S36.5% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
20197$24,000$173,000$235,000$0
202015$14,267$252,000$217,000$0
202114$21,071$316,000$300,000$0
202214$23,214$416,000$332,000$0
202313$26,385$443,000$348,000$0
202415$23,667$367,000$454,000$0

Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.

Where the money comes from

$367,000 in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal28.6%$105,000
State34.9%$128,000
Local36.5%$134,000
Total expenditures$454,000
Current spending$355,000
Instruction$149,000
Support services$146,000
Capital outlay$96,000
Debt outstanding$0

Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.

District contact

Fishtail Elem

Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union

GradesPK08
StatusOpen
Address119 Easton Ave, Fishtail, MT, 59028
Still needed for a complete civic record

The federal layer is useful—but it is not the whole school board.

  • Authorized seat count, numbered or geographic seats, current vacancies, and appointment history
  • Complete historical board results, candidate profiles, and campaign disclosures
  • Exact attendance and board-seat boundaries for an address
  • Normalized meeting agendas, minutes, recorded votes, and decision history
  • School-level outcomes, audited contracts and vendors, and inflation-adjusted spending comparisons
The source record

A functioning Census entity.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
180666
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary Only
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing addressPO BOX 75 · FISHTAIL, MT · 59028
Census contact/title fieldSupt
County areaStillwater
Reported websiteNot published

Websites are primarily self-reported and received only limited Census Bureau quality control. County area can mean the area most served or the headquarters county when boundaries cross counties.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment132023

Evidence boundary

What each source proves—and what it does not.

Established by the published records

  • The entity or system appears in the 2025 Census listing.
  • Its Census category, identifier, and functioning/dormant field.
  • Only the location, function, population, enrollment, and contact fields actually published.
  • Montana OPI labels the trustee rows current, publishes the term fields shown above, and connects the governing school-system ID to this exact NCES district through its fiscal-year 2027 legal-entity crosswalk.

Not established by these records

  • That the published rows equal every authorized seat, or that a missing row is a vacancy; continued service after the verification date is not inferred.
  • Seat numbers or areas, election method, boundaries, filings, candidates, results, meetings, recorded votes, contracts, or vendors.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.