Public school / Primary
Waldo T Skillin Elementary School
South Portland, Maine
- NCES ID
- 231233000033
- District
- South Portland Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Waldo T Skillin Elementary School is a public primary school in South Portland, Maine, run by South Portland Public Schools. It enrols 339 students — the 60080th 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
339
Teachers
29.0
Students per teacher
11.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
23.9%
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 South Portland Public Schools
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.
- 1South Portland High School1,019 students
- 2Daniel F. Mahoney Middle School424 students
- 3Memorial Middle School388 students
- 4Waldo T Skillin Elementary School339 students
- 5Dora L Small Elementary School260 students
- 6Frank I Brown Elementary School235 students
- 7James Otis Kaler Elementary School220 students
- 8Dyer Elementary School196 students
- Enrollment+36.4%
- Teachers+38.1%
- Students per teacher+4.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−38.9%
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