Public school / Primary
Margaret Chase Smith Sch - Skowhegan
Skowhegan, Maine
- NCES ID
- 231459000751
- District
- Rsu 54/Msad 54
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Margaret Chase Smith Sch - Skowhegan is a public primary school in Skowhegan, Maine, run by Rsu 54/Msad 54. It enrols 171 students — the 80867th 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
171
Teachers
15.0
Students per teacher
11.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
68.4%
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 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.
- 1Skowhegan Area High School719 students
- 2Skowhegan Area Middle School403 students
- 3Mill Stream Elementary School345 students
- 4Bloomfield Elementary School272 students
- 5Canaan Elementary School186 students
- 6Margaret Chase Smith Sch - Skowhegan171 students
- 7North Elementary School133 students
- Enrollment−31.2%
- Teachers−28.6%
- Students per teacher+1.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+74.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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