Enrollment
140
Maine · 2024-25 NCES data
Other / mixed grade configuration · Hope, ME
Hope Elementary School
Federal NCES profile for Hope Elementary School, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 45/100.
2024-25 NCES dataOther / mixed grade configurationNCES 230661000980
👥 S:T ratio 67
🌟 Gifted program 30
🎓 Counselors 72
📋 Attendance 9
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →
The verdict
Hope Elementary School earns 45/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes smaller than 87% of Maine schools.
- 45
- Resource Index · Typical
- 8.2:1
- small classes for Maine
- 20.0%
- free-lunch eligible
- 140
- students enrolled
Hope Elementary School has class sizes smaller than 87% of Maine schools. Computed live against every Maine school reporting to NCES.
School address
District: Hope Public Schools · Maine
NCES ID 230661000980 Verify on NCES CCD record →
Teachers (FTE)
17.0
Federal CCD staff survey
Students per teacher
8.2:1
vs 11.1:1 Maine avg
-26% vs state
Free-lunch eligible
20.0%
vs 34.0% Maine avg
-41% vs state
Student-teacher ratio in context
How Hope Elementary School compares with Maine and U.S. medians
What stands out at Hope Elementary School
Teacher staffing is the clearest operational strength
Hope Elementary School's enrollment is not at an extreme, but its student-teacher ratio is: it reports fewer students per teacher than most Maine schools. This is the most distinctive scale-adjusted signal in the federal record. It should be read as staffing capacity, not class size or an academic outcome; the page separately reports attendance, program access, demographics, and district finance so a single favorable ratio does not become an unsupported overall rating.
Need and resources require a component-level read
Hope Elementary 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.
Attendance is the dominant support signal
Hope Elementary School's 36.4% chronic-absence rate is more consequential than a generic staffing label: at least one quarter of students missed 10% or more of school days in the 2021-22 collection. That level can affect instruction, counseling demand, and continuity even when other reported resources look ordinary. The dataset records the scale of absence but not its causes, so it should prompt a current-year question rather than a conclusion about school management.
Hope Elementary School is a lower-poverty, mid-sized combined-grade school in Hope, Maine, enrolling 140 students.
Classes run notably small here: at 8.2:1, Hope Elementary School is leaner than roughly 87% of Maine schools and 26% under the state's 11.1:1 norm, more adult attention per pupil than most peers.
Economic need runs somewhat below the state's typical profile, with 20.0% of students eligible for free meals.
Enrollment of 140 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 81 statewide peers matched on enrollment and economic need, it ranks mid-pack at #46.
Its student body is predominantly White (100% of enrollment) (diversity index 0/100).
Counselor coverage is strong, about 140 students per counselor, inside the American School Counselor Association's recommended 250:1.
Chronic absenteeism is elevated: 36.4% of students missed 10% or more of school days (2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection).
The surrounding Hope Public Schools spends $24,730 per pupil, 23% above the Maine average, a better-resourced district than most.
Hope Public Schools operates only this one school, so Hope Elementary School has no district-mates to compare against locally.
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 Hope Elementary School compares
Hope Elementary 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 | 8.2:1 | ▼ 26% | 11.1:1 | 15.7:1 |
| Free-lunch eligible | 20.0% | ▼ 41% | 34.0% | 51.7% |
| Enrollment | 140 | top 74% | - | - |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25
8.2:1
Leaner classes than 95% of US schools, among the more generously staffed nationally.
140
Bigger than 14% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.
Equity indicators (what these measure)
Economic need
20.0%
free-lunch eligible
- 41% below the Maine average of 34.0%
Below the 40% Title I threshold; federal aid targets individual qualifying students rather than schoolwide programs.
Staffing depth
8.2:1
students per teacher
- 26% below state mean
Top 13% in Maine - lower ratio than 87% of state schools
Well under the widely cited 15:1 individualized-attention benchmark, among the leaner class loads nationally.
Engagement
36.4%
chronically absent (missed 10%+ of school days)
At or above 20%, the commonly used threshold for "high" chronic absenteeism, signaling significant barriers to regular attendance.
Funding equity
$24,730
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
Counselors1.0 FTE
Per 140 students, the combined health-and-guidance staffing load for this school.
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 100.0%
Largest group: White at 100.0% of enrollment.
Student-body diversity index 0.0/100
Simpson diversity index - at 0.0, Hope Elementary School is less mixed than the Maine school average of 20.6.
Programs
Funding & spending
District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Hope Public Schools, which includes Hope Elementary School.
$24,730
Per student
+23%
vs Maine
Avg $20,083
+49%
vs U.S.
Avg $16,593
Revenue mix
Local 0.3%
State 89.9%
Federal 9.7%
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 (~140 students)
Next steps
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Frequently asked questions about Hope Elementary School
How many students attend Hope Elementary School?
Hope Elementary School has 140 students enrolled. It is a public school in Hope, ME.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hope Elementary School?
The student-teacher ratio at Hope Elementary School is 8.2:1, which is 26% lower than the Maine average of 11.1:1 and 48% 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 Hope Elementary School?
20.0% of students at Hope Elementary School are eligible for free lunch, compared to the Maine average of 34.0%.
What is the racial and ethnic makeup of Hope Elementary School?
The largest demographic group at Hope Elementary School is White at 100.0% of enrollment, in Hope, ME.
What is the Resource Investment Index for Hope Elementary School?
Hope Elementary School has a Resource Investment Index of 45/100 (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 Hope Public Schools?
None reported; Hope Public Schools operates only Hope Elementary School as a public school district in NCES's records.
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