Kingman Elementary School

Kingman Elementary School, an one-room-style elementary-level community in Kingman, Maine, operated by Education in Unorganized Terr, hosts 14 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 94% leaner than the typical public school in Maine, which averages around 229 students.

Within Education in Unorganized Terr, which oversees 3 schools and 93 students, Kingman Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Kingman Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 14% Black, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Penobscot County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Kingman Elementary School has 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 6.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.5:1 average. Roughly 79% of students at Kingman Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Penobscot County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Penobscot County) records that the typical household earns roughly $66,356 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Penobscot County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,646 students), of which Kingman Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Lee/Winn School, roughly 10.4 miles away.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 15 students in 2018 compared to 14 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 100% to 79% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 6.4:1 today.

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