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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Canaan Elementary School

Canaan, Maine

NCES ID
231459000746
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Canaan Elementary School is a public primary school in Canaan, Maine, run by Rsu 54/Msad 54. It enrols 186 students — the 79420th largest of 605 public schools in Maine.

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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

186students

79420th nationally, tied with 95

Teachers

21.0FTE

62587th nationally, tied with 2,266

Students per teacher

8.9students

5734th nationally, tied with 219

Free or reduced-price lunch

74.7%percent

26619th nationally, tied with 93

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.

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Within Rsu 54/Msad 54

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Skowhegan Area High School719 students
  2. 2Skowhegan Area Middle School403 students
  3. 3Mill Stream Elementary School345 students
  4. 4Bloomfield Elementary School272 students
  5. 5Canaan Elementary School186 students
  6. 6Margaret Chase Smith Sch - Skowhegan171 students
  7. 7North Elementary School133 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Maine median across 605 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−25.2%
  • Teachers0.0%
  • Students per teacher−20.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+91.0%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.