Government directory/Montana/Independent school district
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 139053

Heart Butte K-12 Schools.

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

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.

197students in the finance record
3operating schools connected
$26,213current spending per pupil
Montana current school trustees

5 trustees published for Heart Butte K-12 Schools.

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
5
Rows with a term date
5
OPI system ID
0767
Who governs this system

Current trustees and published terms

2026-08-30
School trustee

Barbara ArrowTop

May 13, 2026 — May 13, 2029

School trustee

Heidi Crawford

May 10, 2024 — May 10, 2027

School trustee

Joseph Crawford

May 10, 2024 — May 10, 2027

School trustee

Kristal BullChild

May 20, 2026 — May 3, 2029

School trustee

Tracy Weasel Head

May 13, 2025 — May 2, 2028

Public board access role

School system clerk

Davie Lee Shortman

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 5 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment1971.5% higher than 2020
Current spending / pupil$26,21316.3% lower than 2020 after inflation · 1.4% higher than 2020 nominal
Total expenditure$5.3M4.6% higher than 2020 · nominal
Debt outstanding$0.0No reported debt in 2020 or 2024
Enrollment reported by Census
2020: 194; 2021: 177; 2022: 225; 2023: 208; 2024: 19723220117020202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2020: $31,332; 2021: $39,955; 2022: $27,430; 2023: $30,800; 2024: $26,213$41,879$33,084$24,28920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

202054.5% F32.0% S13.5% L
202149.1% F29.9% S21.0% L
202257.5% F30.4% S12.1% L
202357.0% F32.1% S10.9% L
202457.8% F23.6% S18.6% L
View the 2020–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
2020194$25,851$4,922,000$5,097,000$0
2021177$34,514$7,142,000$7,847,000$65,000
2022225$25,591$5,782,000$6,139,000$1,446,000
2023208$29,918$6,213,000$6,962,000$69,000
2024197$26,213$6,702,000$5,332,000$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

$6.70M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal57.8%$3.87M
State23.6%$1.58M
Local18.6%$1.25M
Total expenditures$5.33M
Current spending$5.16M
Instruction$2.07M
Support services$2.72M
Capital outlay$165,000
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

Heart Butte K-12 Schools

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

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address1 School Road, Heart Butte, MT, 59448
Open district website →
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
139053
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing addressGENERAL DELIVERY · HEART BUTTE, MT · 59448
Census contact/title fieldSupt
County areaPondera

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 enrollment2082023

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.