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Deer Isle, Maine - 2 schools
An equity score of 73/100 ranks Deer Isle-Stonington Csd #20 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $22,689 per pupil, Deer Isle-Stonington Csd ranks #40 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
318
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$22,689
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Deer Isle-Stonington Csd operates 2 public schools serving 318 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 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 Hancock County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,689 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 80.1% local, 14.7% 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 73/100, ranked #20 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 (1 AP courses district-wide), a 124.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 51.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.2% White, 1.2% Hispanic or Latino, 0.2% African American across the district's schools.
Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary Sch accounts for 72.6% of all Deer Isle-Stonington Csd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Deer Isle-Stonington Csd a distant remainder — means Deer Isle-Stonington Csd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Deer Isle-Stonington Csd student-counselor ratio is 125:1 — 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.
Deer Isle-Stonington Csd chronic absenteeism rate is 51.8% — 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.