Public school / Primary
Wells Elementary School
Wells, Maine
- NCES ID
- 231349000611
- District
- Wells-Ogunquit CSD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Wells Elementary School is a public primary school in Wells, Maine, run by Wells-Ogunquit CSD. It enrols 551 students — the 31475th 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
551
Teachers
42.0
Students per teacher
13.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
14.9%
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 Wells-Ogunquit CSD
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.
- 1Wells Elementary School551 students
- 2Wells Junior High School441 students
- 3Wells High School415 students
- Enrollment+121.7%
- Teachers+100.0%
- Students per teacher+17.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−61.9%
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