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Stacyville, Maine - 2 schools
An equity score of 76/100 ranks Rsu 89 #12 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $20,729 per pupil, Rsu 89 ranks #61 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
305
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$20,729
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Rsu 89 operates 2 public schools serving 305 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Penobscot County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,729 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 38.5% local, 45.5% state, and 16.0% 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 76/100, ranked #12 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.
a 177.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 61.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.1% White, 1.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Katahdin Elementary School, enrolling 136 students (52% of the district's total enrollment).
Katahdin Elementary School accounts for 44.6% of all Rsu 89 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Rsu 89-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 89 student-counselor ratio is 177:1 — 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 89 chronic absenteeism rate is 61.3% — 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.