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Phillips, Maine - 4 schools
An equity score of 59/100 ranks Rsu 58/Msad 58 #45 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $19,058 per pupil, Rsu 58/Msad 58 ranks #85 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
587
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$19,058
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Rsu 58/Msad 58 operates 4 public schools serving 587 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 high, 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 Franklin County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,058 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 53.5% local, 33.4% state, and 13.1% 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 59/100, ranked #45 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 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (5 AP courses district-wide), and 51.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.2% White, 2.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Day Mountain Regional Middle School, with a diversity index of 18.3/100.
Its largest campus is Mt Abram Regional High School, enrolling 216 students (38% of the district's total enrollment).
Mt Abram Regional High School accounts for 36.8% of all Rsu 58/Msad 58 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Rsu 58/Msad 58-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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 58/Msad 58 school enrollment varies 2.3× across entities
Rsu 58/Msad 58 school enrollment ranges from 95 students (lowest) to 216 students (highest), a spread of 121 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 58/Msad 58 chronic absenteeism rate is 51.9% — 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.