Elementary school (grades K-5) · Isle Au Haut, ME

Isle Au Haut Rural School

Federal NCES profile for Isle Au Haut Rural School, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 51/100.

2024-25 NCES dataElementary school (grades K-5)NCES 230678000170
0/100100/10051/100
👥 S:T ratio
72
🌟 Gifted program
30
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →

The verdict

Isle Au Haut Rural School earns 51/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes smaller than 93% of Maine schools. It is also one of the smallest schools in Maine.

51
Resource Index · Higher
7:1
small classes for Maine
7
students enrolled

Isle Au Haut Rural School has class sizes smaller than 93% of Maine schools. Computed live against every Maine school reporting to NCES.

Enrollment

7

Maine · 2024-25 NCES data

Teachers (FTE)

1.0

Federal CCD staff survey

Students per teacher

7:1

vs 11.1:1 Maine avg

-37% vs state

Student-teacher ratio in context

How Isle Au Haut Rural School compares with Maine and U.S. medians

Smaller classes than state median
0:135:17:1

Source: NCES Common Core of Data As of 2024-25 federal staff survey Total enrollment ÷ full-time-equivalent classroom teachers

What stands out at Isle Au Haut Rural School

Small campus with unusually lean teacher staffing

Isle Au Haut Rural School sits near the smaller end of the Maine enrollment distribution while also reporting a lower student-teacher ratio than most state schools. That pairing is consistent with a compact, teacher-dense setting, though small scale can limit the number of specialized courses or support roles a campus can sustain. The program and staffing sections below show whether the lean ratio extends beyond classroom teachers into broader student services.

No single support indicator dominates

Isle Au Haut Rural School's available federal support indicators do not reveal an extreme in advanced-course access, specialist staffing, chronic absence, or IDEA enrollment. The most responsible reading is therefore component by component rather than a sweeping verdict: current counseling availability, health support, program schedules, and attendance policy still warrant direct confirmation. Missing or middle-range federal fields are not evidence that services are either strong or weak.

Isle Au Haut Rural School is a small elementary school in Isle Au Haut, Maine, enrolling 7 students.

Classes run notably small here: at 7:1, Isle Au Haut Rural School is leaner than roughly 93% of Maine schools and 37% under the state's 11.1:1 norm, more adult attention per pupil than most peers.

This is a small campus: fewer students than 99% of Maine schools, with 7 enrolled.

Its Resource Investment Index lands in the upper third of 569 scored Maine schools.

Its student body is predominantly White (100% of enrollment) (diversity index 0/100).

The surrounding Isle Au Haut Public Schools spends $78,333 per pupil, 290% above the Maine average, a better-resourced district than most.

Isle Au Haut Public Schools operates only this one school, so Isle Au Haut Rural School has no district-mates to compare against locally. At 7 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 Isle Au Haut Rural School compares

Isle Au Haut Rural 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 7:1 ▼ 37% 11.1:1 15.7:1
Enrollment 7 top 99% - -

Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25

7:1
Leaner classes than 97% of US schools, among the more generously staffed nationally.
7
Bigger than 1% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.

Equity indicators (what these measure)

Staffing depth
7:1
students per teacher - 37% below state mean
Top 7% in Maine - lower ratio than 93% of state schools
Well under the widely cited 15:1 individualized-attention benchmark, among the leaner class loads nationally.
Funding equity
$78,333
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 100.0%

Largest group: White at 100.0% of enrollment.

Student-body diversity index 0.0/100

Simpson diversity index - at 0.0, Isle Au Haut Rural School is less mixed than the Maine school average of 20.6.

Programs

Funding & spending

District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Isle Au Haut Public Schools, which includes Isle Au Haut Rural School.

$78,333
Per student
+290%
vs Maine
Avg $20,083
+372%
vs U.S.
Avg $16,593
Revenue mix
Local 85.1%
State 7.0%
Federal 7.9%

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 elementary 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.

Next steps

Verify locally before acting on Isle Au Haut Rural School's federal record.

Federal record (CCD 2024-25, CRDC 2021-22) - PlainSchools assigns no subjective rating; the composite quality score is a transparent, reproducible index computed from this cited federal data.

Frequently asked questions about Isle Au Haut Rural School

How many students attend Isle Au Haut Rural School?

Isle Au Haut Rural School has 7 students enrolled. It is an elementary school in Isle Au Haut, ME.

What is the student-teacher ratio at Isle Au Haut Rural School?

The student-teacher ratio at Isle Au Haut Rural School is 7:1, which is 37% lower than the Maine average of 11.1:1 and 55% lower than the national average of 15.7:1. Lower ratios generally mean more individual attention per student.

What is the racial and ethnic makeup of Isle Au Haut Rural School?

The largest demographic group at Isle Au Haut Rural School is White at 100.0% of enrollment, in Isle Au Haut, ME.

What is the Resource Investment Index for Isle Au Haut Rural School?

Isle Au Haut Rural School has a Resource Investment Index of 51/100 (higher reported resources relative to schools nationally) based on 2 factors: student-teacher ratio, gifted-program reporting. Not a test-score or academic measure (national median ~41/100, see methodology). Limited indicators were available, so the index reflects partial data.

What other schools are in Isle Au Haut Public Schools?

None reported; Isle Au Haut Public Schools operates only Isle Au Haut Rural School as a public school district in NCES's records.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) CCD + Public School Universe (2024-25), CRDC (2021-22), F-33 District Finance Survey (FY 2021-22) · 2024-25 Data as of the 2024-25 school year. Coverage from U.S. Department of Education NCES Common Core of Data. Varies by entity type; administrative districts and certain charter networks may report only a subset of fields.

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