The district serves students living in Fort Benton, Loma, and Carter, with total population nearing 2,000 people.

Upon statehood in 1889, the Enabling Act attempted to set aside sections 16 and 36 in each township to financially support education.

That year, approximately 27 children attended school for one to two months in abandoned homestead shacks.

A storm demolished the partially completed building, but this clapboard-sided school was ultimately ready for students in August 1915.

[5] The Fort Benton Longhorns have had to move with the economy with what District, Division, and Classification they are placed in.