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Dyer Brook, Maine - 1 schools
An equity score of 52/100 ranks Rsu 50 #56 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,171 per pupil, Rsu 50 ranks #149 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$16,171
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Rsu 50 operates 1 public schools serving 335 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 Aroostook County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,171 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 41.5% local, 47.8% state, and 10.7% 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 52/100, ranked #56 of 131 in Maine against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 170:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 29.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.9% White, 2.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is So Aroostook School, enrolling 340 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
So Aroostook School accounts for 100.0% of all Rsu 50 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Rsu 50 a distant remainder — means Rsu 50-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 50 student-counselor ratio is 170:1 — 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.
Rsu 50 chronic absenteeism rate is 29.4% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Rsu 50 is typically wider than the Rsu 50-aggregate figure suggests.