Bloomfield Elementary School

Located at 140 Academy Circle, in Skowhegan, Maine, Bloomfield Elementary School is a medium-sized K-5 school that educates 267 students (grades 1 through 3), run under RSU 54/MSAD 54.

RSU 54/MSAD 54 runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,193 students. Bloomfield Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Bloomfield Elementary School reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Bloomfield Elementary School logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.5:1, putting Bloomfield Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Somerset County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Somerset County shows median household income runs about $58,179, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Somerset County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,044 students), Bloomfield Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Skowhegan Area Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 6%: 284 students in 2018 compared to 267 in 2025.

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