District overview
Butte Elementary School District
Who decides for Butte's schools, what the board has on record, and what is under way
Who decides, and how can families follow along?
Butte Elementary School District's trustees hold regular meetings, normally on the third Monday of the month. The board approves districtwide contracts, personnel actions, budgets and calendars. In the reviewed period it approved a 2026-27 trustee calendar, school-based mental-health services, and a new superintendent contract.
Regular meetings are usually the third Monday
The board approved a 2026-27 calendar using the third Monday, with January and February on Tuesday because the Monday is a holiday.
A new superintendent contract was approved
The board approved Mr. Miller's superintendent contract at its July 2 special meeting, with verbal amendments included in that action.
Mental-health services continue
In June, the board approved a 2026-27 school-based mental-health-services agreement with Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch.
No district spending plan is in this source set
The available recordings show routine financial approvals but do not include a usable district budget document with total spending or per-student spending.
The public record shows regular trustee action on district operations. It does not, in the available source set, provide a full written spending plan or approved minutes that make every decision easy to verify.
What is on the public record
The stored records runs from November 17, 2025 to July 2, 2026.
Presented as a proposed 10-year levy; the collected record does not establish adoption or election outcome.
The annual performance report said enrollment began at 31 and was then about 55 or 56; it met the basic-entitlement threshold of 51.
Major projects
Proposed Butte High technology replacement plan
Presented for possible voter approval; outcome not in the collected recordThe administration presented a proposed 10-year technology levy of $320,000 a year for Butte High School. The proposal would support planned replacements for computers, networking equipment, projectors and related technology, alongside existing software costs.
- Staff present the proposed $320,000 annual levy and 10-year replacement plan.
- Staff state that exact levy amounts would need to be set before the election, but no later resolution is in the available records.
Funding
Proposed voter-approved technology levy; no adoption or election result is established in the stored recordings.
Recent news
The district's official YouTube channel is used to collect individual board-meeting recordings. Each stored transcript is YouTube auto-generated captions, not approved minutes.
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