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Winslow, Maine - 3 schools
An equity score of 48/100 ranks Winslow Schools #66 of 131 districts in Maine (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,099 per pupil, Winslow Schools ranks #118 of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending (Maine districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,069
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$17,099
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Winslow Schools operates 3 public schools serving 1,069 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Maine. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Kennebec County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,099 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 203 Maine districts by per-pupil spending. See how Maine compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 43.3% local, 45.9% state, and 10.7% 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 48/100, ranked #66 of 131 in Maine against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (10 AP courses district-wide), a 794.2:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 21.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.4% White, 3.1% Hispanic or Latino, 1.2% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Winslow Junior High School, with a diversity index of 28.0/100.
Its largest campus is Winslow Elementary School, enrolling 581 students (51% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Winslow Junior High School, at 178 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Winslow Elementary School accounts for 50.9% of all Winslow Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Winslow Schools a distant remainder — means Winslow 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.
Winslow Schools school enrollment varies 3.3× across entities
Winslow Schools school enrollment ranges from 178 students (lowest) to 581 students (highest), a spread of 403 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Winslow Schools student-counselor ratio is 794:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Winslow Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 21.0% — 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 Winslow Schools is typically wider than the Winslow Schools-aggregate figure suggests.