Brooklin School

Brooklin School is an elementary campus of one-room-style scale in Brooklin, Maine, part of Brooklin Public Schools, teacheing 57 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 75% leaner than the typical public school in Maine, which averages around 229 students.

Brooklin School is a school of Brooklin Public Schools, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, Brooklin School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder breaks down as 5% Black. Compared to Hancock County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Brooklin School logs 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.5:1, putting Brooklin School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hancock County (around 46%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Brooklin School is one of 35 public schools in Hancock County (combined enrollment of about 5,938 students).

Nearest neighbor: Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary Sch, around 5.5 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Brooklin School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brooklin School has contracted 8%, going from 62 students in 2018 to 57 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share declined from 5% to 0%.

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