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Harrington, Maine - 4 schools
An equity score of 61/100 ranks Rsu 37/Msad 37 #41 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,875 per pupil, Rsu 37/Msad 37 ranks #104 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Rsu 37/Msad 37 operates 4 public schools serving 691 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 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 Washington County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,875 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 51.0% local, 34.3% state, and 14.7% 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 61/100, ranked #41 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.
a 332.4:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 53.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 82.1% White, 14.7% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Milbridge Elementary School, with a diversity index of 41.4/100.
Its largest campus is Narraguagus High School, enrolling 291 students (46% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Daniel W Merritt School, at 89 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Narraguagus High School accounts for 42.1% of all Rsu 37/Msad 37 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Rsu 37/Msad 37-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 37/Msad 37 school enrollment varies 3.3× across entities
Rsu 37/Msad 37 school enrollment ranges from 89 students (lowest) to 291 students (highest), a spread of 202 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.
Rsu 37/Msad 37 student-counselor ratio is 332:1 — 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 37/Msad 37 is typically wider than the Rsu 37/Msad 37-aggregate figure suggests.
Rsu 37/Msad 37 chronic absenteeism rate is 53.1% — 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.