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Jonesport, Maine - 1 schools
At $16,982 per pupil, Jonesport Public Schools ranks #120 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
98
Total Enrollment
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$16,982
Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Jonesport Public Schools operates 1 public schools serving 98 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 Washington County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,982 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending. See how Maine compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 65.8% local, 12.1% state, and 22.1% 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 42.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.0% White, 2.0% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Jonesport Elementary School, enrolling 101 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Jonesport Elementary School accounts for 100.0% of all Jonesport Public Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Jonesport Public Schools a distant remainder — means Jonesport Public Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Jonesport Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 42.6% — 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.