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Bar Harbor, Maine - 1 schools
At $31,000 per pupil, Cranberry Isles Public Schools ranks #10 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
13
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$31,000
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Cranberry Isles Public Schools operates 1 public schools serving 13 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 Hancock County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $31,000 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 21 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending. See how Maine compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 84.1% local, 13.2% state, and 2.7% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 50:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 60.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 80.0% White, 20.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Cranberry Isles School, enrolling 5 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Cranberry Isles School accounts for 38.5% of all Cranberry Isles Public Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Cranberry Isles Public Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates 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.
Cranberry Isles Public Schools student-counselor ratio is 50:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Cranberry Isles Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 60.0% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Cranberry Isles Public Schools's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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