Rangeley Lakes Regional School

Set in Rangeley, Maine, Rangeley Lakes Regional School is a mid-sized multi-level school, one of the schools within RSU 78. It educates 191 students across grades pre-K through 12.

Operationally, Rangeley Lakes Regional School answers to RSU 78, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Rangeley Lakes Regional School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%); the rest looks like 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Rangeley Lakes Regional School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Franklin County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Franklin County shows median household income runs about $58,675, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Franklin County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,162 students), Rangeley Lakes Regional School is one campus in the mix.

Stratton Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 15.9 miles from this campus.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rangeley Lakes Regional School's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 200 (now 191). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

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