Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

Dirigo Elementary School, Peru, ME

Dirigo Elementary School is a public elementary school in Peru, part of RSU 56. It enrolled 324 students in 2024-25, with 12.0 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 324
Teachers (FTE): 27.0
Students per teacher: 12.0
Grades: PK to 5

This school's ratio is 0.9 lower than the district figure of 12.9. The Maine average across schools is 11.5. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.0

District12.9

Maine11.5

United States15.3

School details

Address: 117 Auburn Road, Peru, ME 04290
Phone: (207)562-4207
District: RSU 56
County: Oxford County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Distant
NCES school ID: 231483323114

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 161
Reduced-price lunch: 23
Free or reduced-price lunch: 18456.8% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 140Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.