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West Bath, Maine - 1 schools
At $28,416 per pupil, West Bath Public Schools ranks #15 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
107
Total Enrollment
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$28,416
Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
West Bath Public Schools operates 1 public schools serving 107 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 Sagadahoc County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $28,416 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 0.2% local, 70.5% state, and 29.4% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 4.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.0% White, 3.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is West Bath School, enrolling 101 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
West Bath School accounts for 94.4% of all West Bath Public Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of West Bath Public Schools a distant remainder — means West Bath 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.
West Bath Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 4.0% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.