Mattanawcook Academy

Mattanawcook Academy is a compact secondary school in Lincoln, Maine, overseen by RSU 67. The school works with 313 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Maine's public schools average about 448 students each, so Mattanawcook Academy sits 30% below that benchmark.

RSU 67 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 941 students; Mattanawcook Academy is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mattanawcook Academy reports that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Penobscot County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Mattanawcook Academy logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the area at large, census data for Penobscot County shows 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%. Mattanawcook Academy is one of 69 public schools in Penobscot County (combined enrollment of about 18,646 students).

The closest other public school is Ella P Burr School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 310 students in 2018 compared to 313 in 2025.

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