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Fryeburg, Maine - 3 schools
An equity score of 31/100 ranks Rsu 72/Msad 72 #111 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,012 per pupil, Rsu 72/Msad 72 ranks #194 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,135
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$12,012
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Rsu 72/Msad 72 operates 3 public schools serving 1,135 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Oxford County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,012 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 57.2% local, 34.5% state, and 8.3% 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 31/100, ranked #111 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.
a 191.2:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 43.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.1% White, 2.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Molly Ockett School, with a diversity index of 14.5/100.
Its largest campus is Molly Ockett School, enrolling 520 students (75% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Brownfield Denmark Elementary School, at 77 students, a 7x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Molly Ockett School accounts for 45.8% of all Rsu 72/Msad 72 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Rsu 72/Msad 72 a distant remainder — means Rsu 72/Msad 72-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 72/Msad 72 school enrollment varies 6.8× across entities
Rsu 72/Msad 72 school enrollment ranges from 77 students (lowest) to 520 students (highest), a spread of 443 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 72/Msad 72 student-counselor ratio is 191:1 — 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 72/Msad 72 chronic absenteeism rate is 43.4% — 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.