Main Street Middle School

Set in Madison, Maine, Main Street Middle School is a compact elementary campus, one of the schools within RSU 59/MSAD 59. It educates 160 students across grades 3 through 6. Compared to the state average of about 229 students per school, that is 30% below typical.

Across the 3 schools in RSU 59/MSAD 59 (543 students total), Main Street Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Main Street Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Other groups include 7% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 73% of students at Main Street Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Somerset County indicate median household income runs about $58,179, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Somerset County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,044 students), of which Main Street Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Madison Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.