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North Anson, Maine - 4 schools
An equity score of 78/100 ranks Rsu 74/Msad 74 #9 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $21,383 per pupil, Rsu 74/Msad 74 ranks #54 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
587
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$21,383
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Rsu 74/Msad 74 operates 4 public schools serving 587 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 elementary, 1 high 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 Somerset County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,383 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 43.3% local, 39.6% state, and 17.1% 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 78/100, ranked #9 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 (2 AP courses district-wide), and 42.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.2% White, 1.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.1% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Carrabec Community School, with a diversity index of 14.4/100.
Its largest campus is Carrabec Community School, enrolling 225 students (39% of the district's total enrollment).
Carrabec Community School accounts for 38.3% of all Rsu 74/Msad 74 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Rsu 74/Msad 74-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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 74/Msad 74 school enrollment varies 2.7× across entities
Rsu 74/Msad 74 school enrollment ranges from 82 students (lowest) to 225 students (highest), a spread of 143 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 74/Msad 74 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 55.5% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Rsu 74/Msad 74 chronic absenteeism rate is 42.5% — 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.