Public school / Primary
Alton Elementary School
Alton, Maine
- NCES ID
- 231478201041
- District
- Rsu 34
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Alton Elementary School is a public primary school in Alton, Maine, run by Rsu 34. It enrols 82 students — the 88923rd largest of 605 public schools in Maine.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
82
Teachers
10.0
Students per teacher
8.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
54.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Rsu 34
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Old Town High School536 students
- 2Old Town Elementary School427 students
- 3Leonard Middle School306 students
- 4Alton Elementary School82 students
- 5Viola Rand School74 students
- Enrollment−67.0%
- Teachers−52.4%
- Students per teacher−26.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+40.4%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory