Yarmouth Elementary School

Yarmouth Elementary School is a primary school of sizable scale in Yarmouth, Maine, overseen by Yarmouth Schools, enrolling 476 students in grades 2 through 5. That puts it 108% bigger than the typical public school in Maine, which averages around 229 students.

Yarmouth Schools comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,655 students; Yarmouth Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Yarmouth Elementary School reports that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Cumberland County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Yarmouth Elementary School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages around 10.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 11% of students at Yarmouth Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cumberland County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

In the broader community, census data for Cumberland County shows median household earnings sit near $95,677, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Yarmouth Elementary School is one of 99 public schools in Cumberland County (combined enrollment of about 38,224 students).

Frank H Harrison Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Yarmouth Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 34% since 2018, when it stood at 355 (now 476). The White share of enrollment fell from 88% to 84% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.