Brooksville Elementary School

Brooksville Elementary School is an elementary-level community of micro-enrollment scale in Brooksville, Maine, run under Brooksville Public Schools, instructing 42 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 82% smaller than the typical public school in Maine, which averages around 229 students.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Brooksville Elementary School reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Native American.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Brooksville Elementary School has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 4.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.5:1 average. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hancock County indicate median household income runs about $72,744, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Hancock County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,938 students), of which Brooksville Elementary School is one.

Adams School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Brooksville Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 33%: 63 students in 2018 compared to 42 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 98% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 6.4:1 in 2018 to 4.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.