Schools · Billings
Billings, MT schools
Billings’s public schools score below Montana’s averages: 43% of students are proficient in reading against 46.2% statewide, and 81% of high schoolers graduate on time against 84.9%.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
B−
Billings’s School Grade: B-
The public schools Billings’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 53% of Montana’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
B-Test scoresC-Graduation
Montana school districts we grade (237)Better than 47%
Lower resultsHigher results
Montana towns with similar household incomes (158)Better than 39%
High confidence. Built on 7,544 tested students and a graduating class of 1,347; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Montana’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Montana only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Montana with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Test scores · 2020–21
Close to the state in reading
Reading (Billings High)45%
State average 46.2%
Reading (Billings Elementary)43%
State average 46.2%
Math (Billings High)29%
State average 34.6%
Math (Billings Elementary)37%
State average 34.6%
Graduation · class of 2020
81% graduate on time
Graduation rate
81%
MT: 84.9%
Graduating class
1,347
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #33 of 36 MT towns →
Districts
Two districts serve Billings
Billings High School DistrictGrades 9–12 · 6 schools · 5,444 students
$12,650 per studentMT $13,570C+Billings Elementary School DistrictGrades PK–8 · 28 schools · 11,169 students
$12,131 per studentMT $13,570B-Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 48 schools in Billings
Showing 1–30 of 48 schools
Meadowlark SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 691 students
APublicBoulder SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 495 students
A-PublicEagle Cliffs ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 443 students
B+PublicArrowhead SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 434 students
APublicBroadwater SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 400 students
C+PublicSandstone SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 393 students
BPublicBeartooth SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 373 students
BPublicBig Sky ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 373 students
BPublicOrchard SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 340 students
DPublicMcKinley SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 339 students
BPublicBench SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 332 students
C+PublicMiles Avenue SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 325 students
CPublicAlkali Creek SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 310 students
B+PublicElysian SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 302 students
A-PublicCentral Heights SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 285 students
A-PublicPoly Drive SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 283 students
B+PublicPonderosa SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 277 students
DPublicRose Park SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 277 students
CPublicBitterroot SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 264 students
C+PublicBurlington SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 257 students
CPublicHighland SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 249 students
B+PublicNewman SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 249 students
C-PublicLewis & Clark Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 741 students
C+PublicBen Steele Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 740 students
A-PublicCastle Rock Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 691 students
BPublicWill James Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 634 students
B-PublicMedicine Crow Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 517 students
CPublicRiverside Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 436 students
CPublicElysian Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 148 students
B+PublicBillings Multilingual AcademyMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 21 students
PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.