Nokomis Regional Middle School

Nokomis Regional Middle School is one of the medium-sized middle schools in Newport, Maine, run under RSU 19, with 524 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. That puts it 44% larger than the typical public school in Maine, which averages around 364 students.

Within RSU 19, which oversees 5 schools and 1,883 students, Nokomis Regional Middle School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Nokomis Regional Middle School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Penobscot County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Penobscot County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $66,356 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Nokomis Regional Middle School is one of 69 public schools in Penobscot County (combined enrollment of about 18,646 students).

Nokomis Regional High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Nokomis Regional Middle School.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

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