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Dayton, Maine - 1 schools
An equity score of 27/100 ranks Dayton Public Schools #119 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $8,765 per pupil, Dayton Public Schools ranks #203 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Dayton Public Schools operates 1 public schools serving 299 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined 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 York County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $8,765 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 21 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending. See how Maine compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 50.2% local, 44.6% state, and 5.2% 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 27/100, ranked #119 of 131 in Maine against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 9.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.8% White, 2.3% Asian, 1.6% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Dayton Consolidated School, enrolling 128 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Dayton Consolidated School accounts for 42.8% of all Dayton Public Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Dayton Public Schools-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.
Dayton Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 9.4% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.