Amanda C Rowe School

Amanda C Rowe School is one of the heavily attended primary schools in Portland, Maine, run under Portland Public Schools, with 470 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 229 students per school, that is 105% larger than typical.

Amanda C Rowe School is one of 16 schools operated by Portland Public Schools, a district that serves 6,548 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Amanda C Rowe School shows that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 17% Black, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 5% Asian. By comparison, Cumberland County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Amanda C Rowe School has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 45% of students at Amanda C Rowe School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Cumberland County's rate of about 34%.

In the broader community, census data for Cumberland County shows median household earnings sit near $95,677, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Cumberland County's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,224 students), Amanda C Rowe School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Lincoln Middle School, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Amanda C Rowe School has expanded 17%, going from 403 students in 2018 to 470 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 10% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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