Enrollment
73
Maine · 2024-25 NCES data
Other / mixed grade configuration · Fayette, ME
Fayette Central School
Federal NCES profile for Fayette Central School, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 44/100.
2024-25 NCES dataOther / mixed grade configurationNCES 230000800455
👥 S:T ratio 58
🌟 Gifted program 30
🎓 Counselors 27
📋 Attendance 59
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →
The verdict
Fayette Central School earns 44/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes near the Maine median.
- 44
- Resource Index · Typical
- 10.4:1
- students per teacher
- 40.0%
- free-lunch eligible
- 73
- students enrolled
Fayette Central School has class sizes near the Maine median. Computed live against every Maine school reporting to NCES.
School address
District: Fayette Public Schools · Maine
NCES ID 230000800455 Verify on NCES CCD record →
Teachers (FTE)
7.0
Federal CCD staff survey
Students per teacher
10.4:1
vs 11.1:1 Maine avg
-6% vs state
Free-lunch eligible
40.0%
vs 34.0% Maine avg
+18% vs state
Student-teacher ratio in context
How Fayette Central School compares with Maine and U.S. medians
What stands out at Fayette Central School
Scale and staffing sit near the state mainstream
Fayette Central School 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
Fayette Central School 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
Fayette Central School 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.
Fayette Central School is a small combined-grade school in Fayette, Maine, enrolling 73 students.
Class sizes run a bit leaner than typical: 10.4:1 puts it in the smaller third of Maine schools by student-teacher ratio.
Economic need runs somewhat above the state's typical profile, with 40.0% of students eligible for free meals.
Enrollment of 73 puts it in the smaller third of Maine schools by headcount.
Its Resource Investment Index sits near the middle of the pack among 569 scored Maine schools.
Against 43 statewide peers matched on enrollment and economic need, it ranks mid-pack at #21.
Its student body is predominantly White (89% of enrollment) (diversity index 20/100).
Counselor availability sits well past the ASCA benchmark, roughly 365 students sharing each counselor, though short of the most stretched campuses.
16.4% of students were chronically absent in the 2021-22 collection, in line with the post-pandemic national range.
Fayette Public Schools operates only this one school, so Fayette Central School has no district-mates to compare against locally. At 73 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 Fayette Central School compares
Fayette Central School on the metrics families compare, against Maine and U.S. means.
| Metric | This school | vs Maine | Maine avg | U.S. avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students per teacher | 10.4:1 | ▼ 6% | 11.1:1 | 15.7:1 |
| Free-lunch eligible | 40.0% | ▲ 18% | 34.0% | 51.7% |
| Enrollment | 73 | top 90% | - | - |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25
10.4:1
Leaner classes than 87% of US schools, among the more generously staffed nationally.
73
Bigger than 8% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.
Equity indicators (what these measure)
Economic need
40.0%
free-lunch eligible
- 18% above the Maine average of 34.0%
Above the 40% Title I schoolwide threshold; federal funds support the whole school, not individual students.
Staffing depth
10.4:1
students per teacher
- 6% below state mean
Top 39% in Maine - lower ratio than 61% of state schools
Well under the widely cited 15:1 individualized-attention benchmark, among the leaner class loads nationally.
Engagement
16.4%
chronically absent (missed 10%+ of school days)
In the 15-20% range, nearing the "high" absenteeism threshold.
Funding equity
$19,787
per pupil, district-wide
- below Maine avg of $20,083
Somewhat above the U.S. public-school average, reflecting higher local or state investment per enrolled student.
Support staff
Counselors0.2 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 89.0%
Hispanic or Latino 5.5%
African American 2.7%
Two or More 2.7%
Largest group: White at 89.0% of enrollment.
Student-body diversity index 20.3/100
Simpson diversity index - at 20.3, Fayette Central School is about as mixed as the Maine school average of 20.6.
Programs
Funding & spending
District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Fayette Public Schools, which includes Fayette Central School.
$19,787
Per student
-1%
vs Maine
Avg $20,083
+19%
vs U.S.
Avg $16,593
Revenue mix
Local 75.2%
State 13.0%
Federal 11.8%
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 (~73 students)
Similar student-teacher ratio (~10.4:1)
Next steps
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Frequently asked questions about Fayette Central School
How many students attend Fayette Central School?
Fayette Central School has 73 students enrolled. It is a public school in Fayette, ME.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Fayette Central School?
The student-teacher ratio at Fayette Central School is 10.4:1, which is 6% lower than the Maine average of 11.1:1 and 34% lower than the national average of 15.7:1. Lower ratios generally mean more individual attention per student.
What percentage of students receive free lunch at Fayette Central School?
40.0% of students at Fayette Central School are eligible for free lunch, compared to the Maine average of 34.0%.
What is the racial and ethnic makeup of Fayette Central School?
The largest demographic group at Fayette Central School is White at 89.0% of enrollment, in Fayette, ME.
What is the Resource Investment Index for Fayette Central School?
Fayette Central School has a Resource Investment Index of 44/100 (typical reported resources relative to schools nationally) based on 4 factors: student-teacher ratio, gifted-program reporting, counselor availability, chronic absenteeism. Not a test-score or academic measure (national median ~41/100, see methodology).
What other schools are in Fayette Public Schools?
None reported; Fayette Public Schools operates only Fayette Central School as a public school district in NCES's records.
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