Mildred L Day School

Located at 600 Limerick Road, in Arundel, Maine, Mildred L Day School is a mid-tier elementary campus that works with 224 students (grades K through 5), overseen by RSU 21.

RSU 21 runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,262 students. Mildred L Day School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mildred L Day School lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% Hispanic, 2% Asian. Compared to York County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. The state averages around 10.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 23% of students at Mildred L Day School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against York County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,333 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Mildred L Day School is one of 61 public schools in York County (combined enrollment of about 24,364 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kennebunk Elementary School, around 2.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Mildred L Day School's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 234 (now 224). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 97% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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