NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools ME

Best-Resourced Schools in Gorham, ME

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5 public K-12 schools in Gorham from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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5
Schools
2,830
Students
54/100
Avg Resource Index
13.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Gorham has more public-school enrollment than 26% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Gorham's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Gorham's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Gorham's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 94th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 17-point gap between Gorham High School and Gorham Middle School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 74%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
94th percentile
Teacher staffing
73rd percentile

Gorham High School accounts for 28.7% of all Gorham public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Gorham-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Gorham school enrollment varies 2.1× across entities

Gorham school enrollment ranges from 392 students (lowest) to 812 students (highest), a spread of 420 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Gorham operates one school district — a single-district system

Gorham's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Gorham student-teacher ratio is 13.5:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Gorham High School 60
2. Great Falls Elementary School 57
3. Village Elementary School-Gorham 56
4. Narragansett Elementary School 54
5. Gorham Middle School 43

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Gorham

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Narragansett Elementary School 30.7/100
  2. 2 Village Elementary School-Gorham 26.7/100
  3. 3 Gorham Middle School 26.4/100
  4. 4 Gorham High School 23.5/100
  5. 5 Great Falls Elementary School 22.8/100

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Which Gorham school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Gorham High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Gorham schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Gorham, ME? ▼

Gorham has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,830 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.