Sebasticook Valley Elementary School

Sebasticook Valley Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Newport, Maine, one of the schools within RSU 19. Current enrollment sits at 333 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 45% larger than the state mean of about 229.

Within RSU 19, which oversees 5 schools and 1,883 students, Sebasticook Valley Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Sebasticook Valley Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Penobscot County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. The state averages around 10.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 55% of students at Sebasticook Valley Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Penobscot County) logs that median household earnings sit near $66,356, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Sebasticook Valley Elementary School is one of 69 public schools in Penobscot County (combined enrollment of about 18,646 students).

The closest other public school is Nokomis Regional High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools.

Sebasticook Valley Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

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