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Boothbay Harbor, Maine - 2 schools
An equity score of 71/100 ranks Boothbay-Boothbay Hbr Csd #23 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $23,741 per pupil, Boothbay-Boothbay Hbr Csd ranks #37 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
500
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$23,741
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Boothbay-Boothbay Hbr Csd operates 2 public schools serving 500 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Lincoln County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $23,741 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending. See how Maine compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 82.7% local, 9.6% state, and 7.7% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 71/100, ranked #23 of 131 in Maine against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (11 AP courses district-wide), a 162.8:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 36.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.0% White, 1.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.9% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Boothbay Region Elem School, enrolling 307 students (64% of the district's total enrollment).
Boothbay Region Elem School accounts for 61.4% of all Boothbay-Boothbay Hbr Csd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Boothbay-Boothbay Hbr Csd a distant remainder — means Boothbay-Boothbay Hbr Csd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Boothbay-Boothbay Hbr Csd student-counselor ratio is 163:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Boothbay-Boothbay Hbr Csd chronic absenteeism rate is 36.1% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.