Phillips Elementary Sch

Phillips Elementary Sch is one of the tight-knit elementary-level communitys in Phillips, Maine, operated by RSU 58/MSAD 58, with 112 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 51% below the typical public school in Maine, which averages around 229 students.

Phillips Elementary Sch is one of 4 schools operated by RSU 58/MSAD 58, a district that caters to 564 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Phillips Elementary Sch logs that nearly all students (94%) are White. The remainder consists of 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 72% of students at Phillips Elementary Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Franklin County's rate of about 57%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Franklin County) logs that median household income runs about $58,675, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Franklin County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,162 students), of which Phillips Elementary Sch is one.

Mt Abram Regional High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.7 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

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