Website ranks Malta Elementary #6 in state

There are 439 elementary schools spread across the state of Montana, according to the Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) and according to the website Niche (www.niche.com) – a site dedicated to giving people information about public school across the country – Malta Elementary School ranks sixth in the Treasure State.

Niche, founded in 2002 by Carnegie Mellon University, released their 2015 Ranking of 8,824 schools in the United State last week. Using a weighted score that included such factors as academics grade, district overall experience grade and teachers grade (using da...