Cape Elizabeth High School

Cape Elizabeth High School operates as a reasonably sized four-year high school in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, one of the schools within Cape Elizabeth Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 471 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Cape Elizabeth High School is one of 3 schools operated by Cape Elizabeth Public Schools, a district that educates 1,498 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Cape Elizabeth High School logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Cumberland County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Cape Elizabeth High School shows 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Cape Elizabeth High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cumberland County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cumberland County put median household income runs about $95,677, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Cumberland County's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,224 students), Cape Elizabeth High School is one campus in the mix.

Cape Elizabeth Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 516 students in 2018 compared to 471 in 2025.

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