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Bar Harbor, Maine - 1 schools
An equity score of 65/100 ranks Mt Desert Csd #34 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $22,547 per pupil, Mt Desert Csd ranks #43 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
495
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$22,547
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Mt Desert Csd operates 1 public schools serving 495 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high 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 $22,547 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 84.9% local, 11.3% state, and 3.8% 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 65/100, ranked #34 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 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (12 AP courses district-wide), a 226.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 33.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 87.2% White, 3.8% Hispanic or Latino, 2.9% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Mt Desert Island High School, enrolling 453 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Mt Desert Island High School accounts for 91.5% of all Mt Desert Csd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mt Desert Csd a distant remainder — means Mt Desert Csd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Mt Desert Csd student-counselor ratio is 227:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Mt Desert Csd chronic absenteeism rate is 33.6% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.