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Hancock, Maine - 1 schools
At $18,317 per pupil, Hancock Public Schools ranks #100 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Hancock Public Schools operates 1 public schools serving 179 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 $18,317 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 73.7% local, 15.8% state, and 10.5% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 55.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.5% White, 1.1% African American, 0.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Hancock Grammar School, enrolling 188 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Hancock Grammar School accounts for 100.0% of all Hancock Public Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Hancock Public Schools a distant remainder — means Hancock Public Schools-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.
Hancock Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 55.3% — 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.
Hancock Public Schools has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 179 students.
How much does Hancock Public Schools spend per student?
Hancock Public Schools spends $18,317 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Hancock Public Schools?
Hancock Public Schools students are 91.5% White, 1.1% African American, 0.5% Hispanic or Latino, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.