Great Falls Elementary School

Great Falls Elementary School is a big elementary campus in Gorham, Maine, overseen by Gorham Public Schools. The school hosts 429 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 229 students per school, that is 87% larger than typical.

Gorham Public Schools runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,830 students. Great Falls Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Great Falls Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest looks like 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.5:1 average. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cumberland County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Cumberland County put 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), Great Falls Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Narragansett Elementary School, around 3.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Great Falls Elementary School has ticked down 19%, going from 528 students in 2018 to 429 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 92% to 88%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.