Buxton Center Elementary School

Buxton Center Elementary School, a big primary school in Buxton, Maine, operated by RSU 06/MSAD 06, serves 552 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 141% bigger than the typical public school in Maine, which averages around 229 students.

Across the 8 schools in RSU 06/MSAD 06 (3,295 students total), Buxton Center Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Buxton Center Elementary School lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, York County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (York County) records that median household income runs about $88,333, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across York County's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,364 students), Buxton Center Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Hollis School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 591 students in 2018 compared to 552 in 2025.

On this page, the feed for Buxton Center Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.