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Bar Harbor, Maine - 1 schools
At $24,857 per pupil, Trenton Public Schools ranks #31 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Trenton Public Schools operates 1 public schools serving 141 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 $24,857 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 83.6% local, 11.3% state, and 5.1% 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 120:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 47.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 89.2% White, 5.0% African American, 0.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Trenton Elementary School, enrolling 120 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Trenton Elementary School accounts for 85.1% of all Trenton Public Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Trenton Public Schools a distant remainder — means Trenton 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.
Trenton Public Schools student-counselor ratio is 120:1 — 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.
Trenton Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 47.5% — 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.
Trenton Public Schools has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 141 students.
How much does Trenton Public Schools spend per student?
Trenton Public Schools spends $24,857 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Trenton Public Schools?
Trenton Public Schools students are 89.2% White, 5.0% African American, 0.8% Hispanic or Latino, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.