Public school / Primary
Houlton Southside School
Houlton, Maine
- NCES ID
- 231116000035
- District
- Rsu 29/Msad 29
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Houlton Southside School is a public primary school in Houlton, Maine, run by Rsu 29/Msad 29. It enrols 317 students — the 63221st 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
317
Teachers
24.0
Students per teacher
13.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
66.6%
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 29/Msad 29
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.
- 1Houlton High School346 students
- 2Houlton Southside School317 students
- 3Houlton Junior High School308 students
- 4Houlton Elementary School296 students
- Enrollment+27.6%
- Teachers+14.3%
- Students per teacher+17.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+70.3%
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