Fiddlehead School of Arts & Science

Fiddlehead School of Arts & Science operates as a close-knit K-5 school in Gray, Maine, operated by Fiddlehead School of Arts and Sciences. Current enrollment sits at 177 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 23% leaner than the typical public school in Maine, which averages around 229 students.

Fiddlehead School of Arts & Science sits inside Fiddlehead School of Arts and Sciences, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Fiddlehead School of Arts & Science shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). The remainder looks like 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.5:1 average. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cumberland County shows median household income runs about $95,677, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Cumberland County's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,224 students), Fiddlehead School of Arts & Science is one campus in the mix.

Russell School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Fiddlehead School of Arts & Science.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area. Fiddlehead School of Arts & Science is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fiddlehead School of Arts & Science has increased 33%, going from 133 students in 2018 to 177 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 5% to 1% across the same window.

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