Mt View Middle School

Mt View Middle School is one of the close-knit intermediate schools in Thorndike, Maine, overseen by RSU 03/MSAD 03, with 232 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Maine's public schools average about 364 students each, so Mt View Middle School sits 36% smaller than that benchmark.

Mt View Middle School is one of 8 schools operated by RSU 03/MSAD 03, a district that educates 983 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mt View Middle School logs that nearly all students (93%) are White; the rest reads as 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Waldo County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. The state averages around 11.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 66% of students at Mt View Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Waldo County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Waldo County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,782, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Waldo County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,843 students), of which Mt View Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mt View Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 20%: 291 students in 2018 compared to 232 in 2025.

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