Enrollment
45
Maine · 2024-25 NCES data
Other / mixed grade configuration · Caswell, ME
Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch
Federal NCES profile for Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 49/100.
2024-25 NCES dataOther / mixed grade configurationNCES 230411000118
👥 S:T ratio 55
🌟 Gifted program 30
📋 Attendance 61
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →
The verdict
Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch earns 49/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes near the Maine median.
- 49
- Resource Index · Higher
- 11.3:1
- students per teacher
- 84.1%
- free-lunch eligible
- 45
- students enrolled
Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch has class sizes near the Maine median. Computed live against every Maine school reporting to NCES.
School address
District: Caswell Public Schools · Maine
NCES ID 230411000118 Verify on NCES CCD record →
Teachers (FTE)
4.0
Federal CCD staff survey
Students per teacher
11.3:1
vs 11.1:1 Maine avg
+2% vs state
Free-lunch eligible
84.1%
vs 34.0% Maine avg
+147% vs state
Student-teacher ratio in context
How Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch compares with Maine and U.S. medians
What stands out at Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch
Scale and staffing sit near the state mainstream
Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch is neither an extreme outlier in enrollment nor in student-teacher ratio among Maine schools. Its profile therefore turns on the other dimensions rather than on scale alone: economic need, counselor coverage, program access, attendance, and district finance. This middle placement is useful because it prevents the campus from being mislabeled as unusually large, small, crowded, or teacher-dense when the federal comparison does not support that claim.
Need and resources require a component-level read
Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch falls within the wide middle of the Maine distribution on both free-meal eligibility and the Resource Investment Index. Neither measure supplies an honest headline by itself. The useful distinctions are in the components: classroom staffing, counselor availability, attendance, gifted-program access, and district spending. Those fields can pull in opposite directions even when the overall percentile looks ordinary.
A combined-grade campus has a different support burden
Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch serves a combined grade span rather than a conventional elementary, middle, or high-school band. That structure can require the same campus to cover transitions, counseling needs, and programs for students at substantially different developmental stages, so a single staffing ratio deserves more caution than it would at a narrower-grade school. Federal totals show the available people and programs, but not how those resources are divided among grade levels.
Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch is a high-poverty, small combined-grade school in Caswell, Maine, enrolling 45 students.
At 11.3:1, its student-teacher ratio sits close to the Maine median, within a few percentage points of the 11.1:1 state norm, neither notably crowded nor notably small.
Economic need is high: 84.1% of students qualify for free meals, 147% above the Maine average, a Title I-weighted population that federal funding formulas prioritise.
This is a small campus: fewer students than 94% of Maine schools, with 45 enrolled.
Its Resource Investment Index sits near the middle of the pack among 569 scored Maine schools.
Its student body is predominantly White (93% of enrollment) (diversity index 13/100).
15.6% of students were chronically absent in the 2021-22 collection, in line with the post-pandemic national range.
Caswell Public Schools operates only this one school, so Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch has no district-mates to compare against locally. At 45 students, it is also a small operation, on the smaller end of Maine's single-school districts.
Sourced from NCES CCD, CRDC, and F-33 (federal records, not a quality verdict). How we source and compute this.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data + CRDC + F-33 · 2024-25
How Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch compares
Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch on the metrics families compare, against Maine and U.S. means.
| Metric | This school | vs Maine | Maine avg | U.S. avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students per teacher | 11.3:1 | ▲ 2% | 11.1:1 | 15.7:1 |
| Free-lunch eligible | 84.1% | ▲ 147% | 34.0% | 51.7% |
| Enrollment | 45 | top 94% | - | - |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25
11.3:1
Leaner classes than 81% of US schools, among the more generously staffed nationally.
45
Bigger than 5% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.
Equity indicators (what these measure)
Economic need
84.1%
free-lunch eligible
- 147% above the Maine average of 34.0%
Well above the 40% Title I schoolwide threshold, among the highest-need profiles in the state; federal funds support the whole school, not individual students.
Staffing depth
11.3:1
students per teacher
- 2% above state mean
Top 59% in Maine - lower ratio than 41% of state schools
Well under the widely cited 15:1 individualized-attention benchmark, among the leaner class loads nationally.
Engagement
15.6%
chronically absent (missed 10%+ of school days)
In the 15-20% range, nearing the "high" absenteeism threshold.
Funding equity
$21,196
per pupil, district-wide
- above Maine avg of $20,083
Well above the U.S. public-school average, reflecting substantially higher local or state investment per enrolled student.
Support staff
Counselors0.0 FTE
Student-support staffing from the Civil Rights Data Collection.
Discipline context
0
in-school suspensions + 0 out-of-school
Suspension rate: 0.0 per 100 students. Combined in-school and out-of-school rate: 0.0 per 100 students. Reported via the Civil Rights Data Collection.
Student demographics
White 93.3%
Two or More 4.4%
American Indian / Alaska Native 2.2%
Largest group: White at 93.3% of enrollment.
Student-body diversity index 12.7/100
Simpson diversity index - at 12.7, Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch is less mixed than the Maine school average of 20.6.
Programs
Funding & spending
District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Caswell Public Schools, which includes Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch.
$21,196
Per student
+6%
vs Maine
Avg $20,083
+28%
vs U.S.
Avg $16,593
Revenue mix
Local 27.9%
State 58.8%
Federal 13.3%
Source: NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey District-level finance · FY 2021-22 Per-pupil expenditure reflects the district-wide average. Individual school budgets are not reported at the federal level.
Similar other schools statewide
Matched by enrollment size and by staffing ratio across all of Maine, not just this city - a different peer set than the local comparisons above.
Similar enrollment (~45 students)
Next steps
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Frequently asked questions about Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch
How many students attend Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch?
Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch has 45 students enrolled. It is a public school in Caswell, ME.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch?
The student-teacher ratio at Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch is 11.3:1, which is 2% higher than the Maine average of 11.1:1 and 28% lower than the national average of 15.7:1.
What percentage of students receive free lunch at Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch?
84.1% of students at Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch are eligible for free lunch, compared to the Maine average of 34.0%.
What is the racial and ethnic makeup of Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch?
The largest demographic group at Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch is White at 93.3% of enrollment, in Caswell, ME.
What is the Resource Investment Index for Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch?
Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch has a Resource Investment Index of 49/100 (higher reported resources relative to schools nationally) based on 3 factors: student-teacher ratio, gifted-program reporting, chronic absenteeism. Not a test-score or academic measure (national median ~41/100, see methodology).
What other schools are in Caswell Public Schools?
None reported; Caswell Public Schools operates only Dawn F Barnes Elementary Sch as a public school district in NCES's records.
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