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Tenants Harbor, Maine - 1 schools
An equity score of 71/100 ranks St George Public Schools #25 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $25,090 per pupil, St George Public Schools ranks #29 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
St George Public Schools operates 1 public schools serving 222 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 Knox County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,090 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 86.0% local, 10.9% state, and 3.2% 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 71/100, ranked #25 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.
and 41.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.1% White, 3.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is St George School, enrolling 206 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
St George School accounts for 92.8% of all St George Public Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of St George Public Schools a distant remainder — means St George Public Schools-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.
St George Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 41.7% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.