Enrollment
27
Maine · 2024-25 NCES data
Other / mixed grade configuration · Whiting, ME
Whiting Village School
Federal NCES profile for Whiting Village School, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 49/100.
2024-25 NCES dataOther / mixed grade configurationNCES 230006800564
👥 S:T ratio 73
🌟 Gifted program 30
📋 Attendance 45
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →
The verdict
Whiting Village School earns 49/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes smaller than 94% of Maine schools. It is also one of the smallest schools in Maine.
- 49
- Resource Index · Higher
- 6.8:1
- small classes for Maine
- 32.1%
- free-lunch eligible
- 27
- students enrolled
Whiting Village School has class sizes smaller than 94% of Maine schools. Computed live against every Maine school reporting to NCES.
School address
District: Whiting Public Schools · Maine
NCES ID 230006800564 Verify on NCES CCD record →
Teachers (FTE)
4.0
Federal CCD staff survey
Students per teacher
6.8:1
vs 11.1:1 Maine avg
-39% vs state
Free-lunch eligible
32.1%
vs 34.0% Maine avg
-6% vs state
Student-teacher ratio in context
How Whiting Village School compares with Maine and U.S. medians
What stands out at Whiting Village School
Small campus with unusually lean teacher staffing
Whiting Village 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.
Need and resources require a component-level read
Whiting Village 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
Whiting Village 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.
Whiting Village School is a small combined-grade school in Whiting, Maine, enrolling 27 students.
Classes run notably small here: at 6.8:1, Whiting Village School is leaner than roughly 94% of Maine schools and 39% under the state's 11.1:1 norm, more adult attention per pupil than most peers.
Its free-meal eligibility rate of 32.1% lands close to the Maine typical range, neither a high- nor low-need campus by this measure.
This is a small campus: fewer students than 96% of Maine schools, with 27 enrolled.
Its Resource Investment Index sits near the middle of the pack among 569 scored Maine schools.
Its student body is predominantly White (96% of enrollment) (diversity index 7/100).
Attendance runs somewhat below the norm, with 22.2% of students chronically absent per the 2021-22 civil-rights collection.
Whiting Public Schools operates only this one school, so Whiting Village School has no district-mates to compare against locally. At 27 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 Whiting Village School compares
Whiting Village 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 | 6.8:1 | ▼ 39% | 11.1:1 | 15.7:1 |
| Free-lunch eligible | 32.1% | ▼ 6% | 34.0% | 51.7% |
| Enrollment | 27 | top 96% | - | - |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25
6.8:1
Leaner classes than 97% of US schools, among the more generously staffed nationally.
27
Bigger than 3% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.
Equity indicators (what these measure)
Economic need
32.1%
free-lunch eligible
- 6% 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
6.8:1
students per teacher
- 39% below state mean
Top 6% in Maine - lower ratio than 94% of state schools
Well under the widely cited 15:1 individualized-attention benchmark, among the leaner class loads nationally.
Engagement
22.2%
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
$20,727
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 96.3%
Two or More 3.7%
Largest group: White at 96.3% of enrollment.
Student-body diversity index 7.1/100
Simpson diversity index - at 7.1, Whiting Village School is less mixed than the Maine school average of 20.6.
Programs
Funding & spending
District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Whiting Public Schools, which includes Whiting Village School.
$20,727
Per student
+3%
vs Maine
Avg $20,083
+25%
vs U.S.
Avg $16,593
Revenue mix
Local 83.0%
State 10.9%
Federal 6.1%
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 (~27 students)
Similar student-teacher ratio (~6.8:1)
Next steps
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Frequently asked questions about Whiting Village School
How many students attend Whiting Village School?
Whiting Village School has 27 students enrolled. It is a public school in Whiting, ME.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Whiting Village School?
The student-teacher ratio at Whiting Village School is 6.8:1, which is 39% lower than the Maine average of 11.1:1 and 57% 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 Whiting Village School?
32.1% of students at Whiting Village School are eligible for free lunch, compared to the Maine average of 34.0%.
What is the racial and ethnic makeup of Whiting Village School?
The largest demographic group at Whiting Village School is White at 96.3% of enrollment, in Whiting, ME.
What is the Resource Investment Index for Whiting Village School?
Whiting Village School 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 Whiting Public Schools?
None reported; Whiting Public Schools operates only Whiting Village School as a public school district in NCES's records.
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