The reported proficiency rate for Science is 0%.
Original Research by School Decision on Davey Elementary
Davey Elementary is a rural school serving students from preschool through eighth grade, located outside Havre on Clear Creek Road. It is a very small school, and it operates as its own elementary district, called Davey Elem. The school’s enrollment is in the low double digits, and it serves children from kindergarten through fourth grade only at this time, with no students in upper elementary or middle school grades. The student body is predominantly white, with a very small number of Black students; no other racial or ethnic groups are represented in the reported data.
Statewide testing data for math and English language arts is suppressed because the number of students tested is so small that the state does not report it. Science testing results are available, but no students were tested in that subject in the most recent year, which means no performance data is available for science either. Because of the tiny number of test-takers, there is no reliable way to assess overall academic performance at this school using standardized measures. The data that does exist places the school in the bottom quartile among districts in Hill County on a combined proficiency index, but with only a handful of students tested across any subject, this ranking carries very little statistical meaning.
No graduation rate is reported because the school does not serve high school grades. Information about special education services, English learner support, free or reduced-price meal eligibility, discipline, staffing, and attendance is not available in the data for this school. No program offerings are listed either.
The school is part of a tiny rural district with a single building and a small number of teachers. Searches found no record of recent curriculum changes, school board decisions, property tax shifts, or other district-level developments that would be relevant for parents. The district appears to be stable and very small, with no major changes reported.
Havre, the nearest town, is the regional medical and business center for the Hi-Line region of Montana. It was founded as a railroad service center for the Great Northern Railway and retains a historic downtown grid layout along U.S. Highway 2, which runs through town alongside the BNSF railroad tracks. The city’s largest employers are Northern Montana Hospital, Montana State University–Northern, and the BNSF Railway, though the railroad scaled back its local workforce decades ago. The population has been declining slightly in recent years. The city has a public library, a large county park, a museum on the Montana Dinosaur Trail, and an Amtrak stop on the Empire Builder line. Schools in Havre are distributed through the community rather than concentrated in one area.
For a family considering Davey Elementary, the main takeaway is that this is a very small rural school where individualized attention is a built-in feature of the setting. With just a single teacher and a dozen students, the experience is fundamentally different from what a larger school offers. A parent who wants a close-knit, one-room-school environment may find this appealing. However, the absence of standardized test data means there is no public metric to gauge academic outcomes, and the school does not offer the breadth of programs or extracurriculars typical of larger schools. A parent considering this school should visit and speak directly with the teacher and district leadership about curriculum, class structure, and how the school supports students across grade levels in a multi-age setting. Because the district is so small, any family decision would need to account for what happens after eighth grade, as students would then move to a different school system for high school.
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