2025 Census government inventory

East Helena K-12

Independent school district in Montana. Browse the source-reported information below.

Census ID 249185 · Census county field: Lewis and Clark · Functioning in the 2025 inventory
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.

1,915students in the finance record
7operating schools connected
$10,159current spending per pupil
Montana current school trustees

7 trustees published for East Helena Public 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
7
Rows with a term date
7
OPI system ID
0615
Page entityEast Helena K-12NCES 3000655 · OPI legal entity 1240
Governing systemEast Helena Public SchoolsThe trustee roster is published at this system level.
Who governs this system

Current trustees and published terms

2026-08-30
School trustee

Brandon Hansen

May 11, 2026 — May 14, 2029

School trustee

Martin Balukas

May 14, 2018 — May 14, 2029

School trustee

Scott Walter

May 14, 2007 — May 12, 2028

School trustee

Stacy Baird

May 13, 2024 — May 10, 2027

School trustee

Tiffany Richardson

May 19, 2025 — May 19, 2028

School trustee

Tristan Ulmer

May 8, 2023 — May 14, 2029

School trustee

Tyrel Murfitt

May 13, 2024 — May 10, 2027

Public board access role

School system clerk

Jane Knudsen

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 ↗
Enrollment1,91551.0% higher than 2019
Current spending / pupil$10,15910.5% lower than 2019 after inflation · 9.8% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$21.2M3.6% lower than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$40.4M16.1% lower than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 1,268; 2020: 1,387; 2021: 1,505; 2022: 1,739; 2023: 1,952; 2024: 1,9152,0481,6101,172201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $11,352; 2020: $12,491; 2021: $12,447; 2022: $11,062; 2023: $10,298; 2024: $10,159$12,818$11,325$9,832201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

20198.1% F40.8% S51.2% L
20207.7% F42.2% S50.1% L
202119.4% F39.7% S40.8% L
202217.3% F43.8% S38.9% L
202311.6% F48.6% S39.7% L
20249.6% F49.1% S41.3% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
20191,268$9,252$16,530,000$22,004,000$48,170,000
20201,387$10,306$17,880,000$39,809,000$46,710,000
20211,505$10,752$20,946,000$23,681,000$45,205,000
20221,739$10,320$22,439,000$22,001,000$43,714,000
20231,952$10,003$24,276,000$21,775,000$42,105,000
20241,915$10,159$25,198,000$21,205,000$40,425,000

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.

Schools this system operates

Explore the schools—not just the agency record.

NCES source ↗
Where the money comes from

$25.2M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal9.6%$2.43M
State49.1%$12.4M
Local41.3%$10.4M
Total expenditures$21.2M
Current spending$19.5M
Instruction$11.9M
Support services$6.53M
Capital outlay$95,000
Debt outstanding$40.4M

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

East Helena K-12

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

GradesPK–12
StatusOpen
Address226 E Clinton, East Helena, MT, 59635
Open district website →
About this school data

Census and NCES records describe this system’s enrollment, finances and schools for the years shown. Board, election and meeting information, when available, has separate sources and dates. An unlisted item means it is not covered here—not that it does not exist. Check the district’s official notices for current meetings and officeholders.

The source record

Listed as functioning in 2025.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
249185
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
2025 Census snapshot

Reported contact and location fields

Reported mailing addressPO BOX 1280 · EAST HELENA, MT · 59635
Census county fieldLewis and Clark
Reported websiteOpen listed website ↗

These are inventory fields, not newly verified office contacts. A county field or mailing address does not establish the exact service boundary.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment1,9522023

About these sources and their limits
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.