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Rangeley, Maine - 1 schools
At $25,123 per pupil, Rsu 78 ranks #28 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
198
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$25,123
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Rsu 78 operates 1 public schools serving 198 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 Franklin County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,123 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 82.2% local, 10.5% state, and 7.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 44.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.2% White, 4.2% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% African American across the district's schools.
Rangeley Lakes Regional School accounts for 96.5% of all Rsu 78 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Rsu 78 a distant remainder — means Rsu 78-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Rsu 78 chronic absenteeism rate is 44.0% — 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.