Airline Community School

Airline Community School, an one-room-style elementary-level community in Aurora, Maine, part of Airline CSD, educates 30 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 87% smaller than the typical public school in Maine, which averages around 229 students.

Airline Community School sits inside Airline CSD, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, Airline Community School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%); the rest comes out to 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 70% of students at Airline Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hancock County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, Hancock County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,744 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hancock County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,938 students), Airline Community School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cave Hill Sch, roughly 12.4 miles away.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Airline Community School has ticked down 12%, going from 34 students in 2018 to 30 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 7.4:1 in 2018 to 5.8:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Airline Community School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.