Marcia Buker School
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MEA 2024-25 . % At or Above State ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MEA, Maine's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maine schools, those numbers are about 64 and 51.
About Marcia Buker School
Marcia Buker School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Richmond, Maine, overseen by Richmond Public Schools. The school teaches 214 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 3 schools in Richmond Public Schools (422 students total), Marcia Buker School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Marcia Buker School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sagadahoc County) records that median household income runs about $87,806, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Marcia Buker School is one of 21 public schools in Sagadahoc County (combined enrollment of about 4,971 students).
Nearest neighbor: Marcia Buker School, around 0.0 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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