Winslow Junior High School

Winslow Junior High School is a middle-grades school of low-enrollment scale in Winslow, Maine, operated by Winslow Schools, serveing 178 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Maine's public schools average about 364 students each, so Winslow Junior High School sits 51% below that benchmark.

Winslow Schools runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,142 students. Winslow Junior High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Winslow Junior High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest comes out to 9% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black. By comparison, Kennebec County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Kennebec County indicate median household earnings sit near $69,077, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Kennebec County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,649 students), of which Winslow Junior High School is one.

Winslow High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Winslow Junior High School operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Winslow Junior High School's enrollment has shrank 35% since 2018, when it stood at 275 (now 178). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 91% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.