Day Mountain Regional Middle School

Day Mountain Regional Middle School is a micro-enrollment middle school in Strong, Maine, run under RSU 58/MSAD 58. The school educates 141 students in grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Maine's public schools average about 364 students each, so Day Mountain Regional Middle School sits 61% leaner than that benchmark.

Within RSU 58/MSAD 58, which oversees 4 schools and 564 students, Day Mountain Regional Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Day Mountain Regional Middle School logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Franklin County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Day Mountain Regional Middle School reports 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.2:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at Day Mountain Regional Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Franklin County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Franklin County) shows that median household income runs about $58,675, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Franklin County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,162 students), of which Day Mountain Regional Middle School is one.

Mt Abram Regional High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.6 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a low-density site.

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