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Rumford, Maine - 6 schools
An equity score of 83/100 ranks Rsu 10 #3 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $21,221 per pupil, Rsu 10 ranks #55 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,783
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$21,221
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Rsu 10 operates 6 public schools serving 1,783 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 combined, 1 elementary, 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 Oxford County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,221 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 32.5% local, 42.5% state, and 25.0% 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 83/100, ranked #3 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 2 of 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (10 AP courses district-wide), a 289.8:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 60.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.1% White, 4.0% Hispanic or Latino, 1.6% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Rumford Elementary, with a diversity index of 27.8/100.
Its largest campus is Mountain Valley Middle School, enrolling 376 students (22% of the district's total enrollment).
Mountain Valley Middle School accounts for 21.1% of all Rsu 10 student enrollment
That concentration means Rsu 10-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.
Rsu 10 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 58.8% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Rsu 10 student-counselor ratio is 290:1 — 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 Rsu 10 is typically wider than the Rsu 10-aggregate figure suggests.
Rsu 10 chronic absenteeism rate is 60.1% — 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.