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Fort Kent, Maine - 3 schools
An equity score of 42/100 ranks Msad 27 #88 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,497 per pupil, Msad 27 ranks #139 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
818
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$16,497
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Msad 27 operates 3 public schools serving 818 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Aroostook County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,497 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 38.7% local, 42.2% state, and 19.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 42/100, ranked #88 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 347:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 45.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.1% White, 2.9% African American, 2.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Fort Kent Elementary School, with a diversity index of 15.4/100.
Its largest campus is Fort Kent Elementary School, enrolling 454 students (56% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Valley Rivers Middle School, at 118 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Fort Kent Elementary School accounts for 55.5% of all Msad 27 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Msad 27 a distant remainder — means Msad 27-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.
Msad 27 school enrollment varies 3.8× across entities
Msad 27 school enrollment ranges from 118 students (lowest) to 454 students (highest), a spread of 336 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Msad 27 student-counselor ratio is 347:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Msad 27 is typically wider than the Msad 27-aggregate figure suggests.
Msad 27 chronic absenteeism rate is 45.1% — 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.