Public school / Middle
Bruce M Whittier Middle School
Poland, Maine
- NCES ID
- 231477500438
- District
- Rsu 16
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Bruce M Whittier Middle School is a public middle school in Poland, Maine, run by Rsu 16. It enrols 281 students — the 68225th 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
281
Teachers
23.0
Students per teacher
12.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
36.3%
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 16
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.
- 1Poland Regional H S535 students
- 2Poland Community School436 students
- 3Bruce M Whittier Middle School281 students
- 4Elm Street School-Mechanic Falls245 students
- 5Minot Consolidated School223 students
- Enrollment+13.1%
- Teachers+9.5%
- Students per teacher+8.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−7.2%
Where this sits
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