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Somerville, Maine - 5 schools
An equity score of 20/100 ranks Rsu 12 #127 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,672 per pupil, Rsu 12 ranks #186 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,265
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$12,672
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Rsu 12 operates 5 public schools serving 1,265 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 combined, 1 elementary 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 Lincoln County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,672 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 21 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending. See how Maine compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 45.6% local, 42.0% state, and 12.4% 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 20/100, ranked #127 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.
and 43.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.7% White, 2.6% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Windsor Elementary School, with a diversity index of 13.9/100.
Its largest campus is Windsor Elementary School, enrolling 288 students (33% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Somerville Elementary School, at 32 students, a 9x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Windsor Elementary School accounts for 22.8% of all Rsu 12 student enrollment
That concentration means Rsu 12-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 12 school enrollment varies 9.0× across entities
Rsu 12 school enrollment ranges from 32 students (lowest) to 288 students (highest), a spread of 256 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Rsu 12 chronic absenteeism rate is 43.2% — 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.