Baxter Academy for Tech & Sciences

Set in Portland, Maine, Baxter Academy for Tech & Sciences is a middle-of-the-pack high school, part of Baxter Academy for Technology and Science. It educates 384 students across grades 9 through 12.

Operationally, Baxter Academy for Tech & Sciences answers to Baxter Academy for Technology and Science, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Baxter Academy for Tech & Sciences logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest reads as 5% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Asian. Compared to Cumberland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. Roughly 20% of students at Baxter Academy for Tech & Sciences qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cumberland County (around 34%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Around the school, census data for Cumberland County shows the typical household earns roughly $95,677 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Baxter Academy for Tech & Sciences is one of 99 public schools in Cumberland County (combined enrollment of about 38,224 students).

Portland High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Baxter Academy for Tech & Sciences.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. Baxter Academy for Tech & Sciences is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Baxter Academy for Tech & Sciences has fell 4%, going from 400 students in 2018 to 384 in 2025.

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