Reeds Brook Middle School

Set in Hampden, Maine, Reeds Brook Middle School is a tight-knit intermediate school, one of the schools within RSU 22. It hosts 304 students across grades 6 through 8.

RSU 22 runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,169 students. Reeds Brook Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Reeds Brook Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest breaks down as 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Penobscot County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

In the surrounding community, census data for Penobscot County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,356 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Penobscot County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,646 students), of which Reeds Brook Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Earl C McGraw School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Reeds Brook Middle School.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Reeds Brook Middle School has fell 22%, going from 392 students in 2018 to 304 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.