Dyer Elementary School

Dyer Elementary School is one of the small elementary-level communitys in South Portland, Maine, one of the schools within South Portland Public Schools, with 194 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Dyer Elementary School is one of 7 schools operated by South Portland Public Schools, a district that enrolls 2,816 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Dyer Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 76%. Beyond that, the school records 10% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.5:1 average. Roughly 28% of students at Dyer Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, Cumberland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $95,677 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Cumberland County runs 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,224 students), of which Dyer Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is South Portland High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dyer Elementary School has contracted 15%, going from 227 students in 2018 to 194 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 3% to 10%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.