Walton School

Walton School is one of the modestly sized elementary-level communitys in Auburn, Maine, run under Auburn Public Schools, with 156 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Maine's public schools average about 229 students each, so Walton School sits 32% below that benchmark.

Walton School is one of 8 schools operated by Auburn Public Schools, a district that instructs 3,241 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Walton School logs that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% Black, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Androscoggin County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Androscoggin County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,873 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Androscoggin County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,588 students), Walton School is one campus in the mix.

Sherwood Heights Elementary Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Walton School.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 37%: 249 students in 2018 compared to 156 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment climbed from 6% to 13% over that span.

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