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Bar Harbor, Maine - 1 schools
At $29,684 per pupil, Southwest Harbor Public Schools ranks #13 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$29,684
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Southwest Harbor Public Schools operates 1 public schools serving 144 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 Hancock County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $29,684 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 21 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, 13.8% state, and 4.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 127:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 28.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 89.8% White, 3.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Pemetic Elementary School, enrolling 127 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Pemetic Elementary School accounts for 88.2% of all Southwest Harbor Public Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Southwest Harbor Public Schools a distant remainder — means Southwest Harbor Public Schools-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.
Southwest Harbor Public Schools student-counselor ratio is 127:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Southwest Harbor Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 28.3% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Southwest Harbor Public Schools is typically wider than the Southwest Harbor Public Schools-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Southwest Harbor Public Schools's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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