Ridge View Community School

Located at 175 Fern Road, in Dexter, Maine, Ridge View Community School is a sizable elementary campus that works with 528 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within MSAD 46. That puts it 131% bigger than the typical public school in Maine, which averages around 229 students.

MSAD 46 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 805 students. Ridge View Community School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Ridge View Community School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Beyond that, the school shows 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. The state averages around 10.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 77% of students at Ridge View Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Penobscot County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, census data for Penobscot County shows median household earnings sit near $66,356, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ridge View Community School is one of 69 public schools in Penobscot County (combined enrollment of about 18,646 students).

Dexter Regional High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Ridge View Community School's enrollment has contracted 14% since 2018, when it stood at 616 (now 528). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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