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Vinalhaven, Maine - 1 schools
At $25,669 per pupil, Rsu 08/Msad 08 ranks #21 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
157
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$25,669
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Rsu 08/Msad 08 operates 1 public schools serving 157 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 Knox County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,669 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 21 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending. See how Maine compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 70.9% local, 18.5% state, and 10.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), and 64.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 98.6% White, 1.4% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Vinalhaven School, enrolling 143 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Vinalhaven School accounts for 91.1% of all Rsu 08/Msad 08 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Rsu 08/Msad 08 a distant remainder — means Rsu 08/Msad 08-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.
Rsu 08/Msad 08 chronic absenteeism rate is 64.3% — 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.