The short answer
- Of the 243 applicants whose Category 2 budget can be worked out from their Form 471s, 233 have at least half of it left and 1 have none left.
- The most left: Billings School District 2 ($2,954,226); Great Falls Public Schools A.K.A. Great Falls School District 1&a ($2,091,537); Bozeman School District 7 A.K.A. Bozeman Public Schools ($1,783,693).
Category 2 budgets left
Each applicant's five-year budget for funding years 2026 to 2030, the Category 2 it has requested since FY2026 (funded or pending, before discounts), and what's left. Select a name for the details and its funding requests. Requests a consortium filed on a member's behalf aren't included, so where a state or regional consortium buys Category 2, "left" will read high.
New Form 470s for funding year 2027
0 Category 2 Form 470s have been certified in Montana for funding year 2027.
No Category 2 Form 470s for funding year 2027 have been certified in Montana yet.
How the numbers are worked out
Budgets use USAC's rates: $201.57 per student for schools and $5.43 per square foot for libraries, with a $30,175 floor per school or library, counted from the first Form 471 each applicant filed in the cycle. Requests come from USAC's FRN status data, using the latest version of each request; denied and cancelled requests don't count. Requests a consortium filed for its members are filed under the consortium and aren't subtracted here, and applicants that haven't filed a Form 471 this cycle aren't listed. The C2 budget lookup explains the method in full.
Data: USAC Open Data datasets upfy-khtr, qdmp-ygft, 7i5i-83qf and jt8s-3q52, read October 31, 2026. Not official USAC figures.
Questions providers ask
How much Category 2 E-Rate funding has Montana requested since FY2026?
$3.7 million before discounts, across 74 applicants, as of October 31, 2026. Denied and cancelled requests aren't counted.
How many Category 2 Form 470s have been posted in Montana for FY2027?
0 certified as of October 31, 2026. E-Rate Workbench screens new ones every night against your offices, services and no-bid rules.
Which Montana districts have the most Category 2 budget left?
Billings School District 2 ($2,954,226); Great Falls Public Schools A.K.A. Great Falls School District 1&a ($2,091,537); Bozeman School District 7 A.K.A. Bozeman Public Schools ($1,783,693).