Calais Elementary School

Set in Calais, Maine, Calais Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary campus, one of the schools within Calais Public Schools. It enrolls 250 students across grades pre-K through 6.

Calais Public Schools runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 539 students. Calais Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Calais Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). The remainder reads as 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Calais Elementary School shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.5:1 average. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Washington County put median household income runs about $56,024, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Washington County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,703 students), Calais Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Calais Middle/High School, roughly 2.3 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Calais Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 269 (now 250). Over the same period, the White share fell from 93% to 88%. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.