Harpswell Community School

Harpswell Community School is a public low-enrollment elementary school in Harpswell, Maine. The school serves kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 132 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Maine enroll about 229 students on average.

RSU 75/MSAD 75 has 2,301 students in 7 schools, and Harpswell Community School is one of those schools.

At Harpswell Community School, 89% of students are White. After that, the student body is 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Census estimates put Cumberland County at about 86% White, close to the school's figure. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Harpswell Community School scores 20%.

Harpswell Community School lists 9.6 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.8 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Maine, the average ratio is 10.5:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 36% of the student body. The figure for public schools in Cumberland County is close, at 34%.

In Cumberland County, the median household earns about $95,677 a year, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Harpswell Community School shares Cumberland County with 98 other public schools.

A public school about 4.8 miles away, Brunswick High School, is the closest to Harpswell Community School. The count of other public schools within ten miles is at least 8.

NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Distant. That means it sits in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 132, from 157 in 2017-18. By 2024-25, the school had 13.8 students per teacher, compared with 11.6 in 2017-18.

This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Harpswell Community School. Members of the school community can share what they know.