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The community of Browning is about 45 miles south of the Canadian border inside of the Blackfeet Indian Nation, just west of Glacier National Park in northwest Montana. Browning Public Schools is the district that serves nearly 2,000 students in the area, a region U.S. News and World Report classifies in its school rankings as “fringe rural.”
“Fringe rural” may describe the geography of a place at the western edge of the Great Plains, but the phrase doesn’t adequately tell Browning’s story. The District is, per Public School Review, among the poorest in the state, ranking economically near the bottom when compared to other school districts in Montana. A recruitment video on the district’s website illuminates the challenges Browning faces. It features Angie Pepion, an elementary school teacher. In the video, she says, “My favorite thing about the school district is having stability for our students… such as making sure that every student is fed.”
