Regular local school district · Hancock County
Penobscot Public Schools, ME: schools, enrollment and spending
Penobscot Public Schools runs 1 public school with 82 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 9.1 students per teacher is 2.4 lower than the Maine figure of 11.5.
At a glance
- Schools
- 1
- Students
- 82
- Teachers (FTE)
- 9
- Students per teacher
- 9.1
- ME: 11.5 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 20 Hinckley Ridge Rd, Blue Hill, ME 04614
- Phone
- (207)374-9927
- County
- Hancock County
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 2309630
- State district ID
- ME-351
- Total staff (FTE)
- 23
- School counselors (FTE)
- 0.0
- School administrators (FTE)
- 0.0
Students per teacher compared
This district9.1
Maine11.5
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (86), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $2.0 million
- Federal revenue
- $226,000
- State revenue
- $222,000
- Local revenue
- $1.6 million
- Total spending
- $2.1 million
- Spending per pupil
- $23,988
- Salaries
- $850,00041.2% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $0
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 11.1%
- State: 10.9%
- Local: 78.1%
Maine overall
- Federal: 13.0%
- State: 38.0%
- Local: 48.9%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$23,988
Maine$20,160
United States$16,826
Schools in Penobscot Public Schools
By level: 1 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Penobscot Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 8 | 65 | 7.2 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Hancock County
- Ellsworth Public Schools 1,261 students
- RSU 25 1,073 students
- RSU 24 718 students
- Mt Desert CSD 454 students
- Blue Hill Public Schools 347 students
- Bar Harbor Public Schools 346 students
- Deer Isle-Stonington CSD 343 students
- Hancock Public Schools 189 students
- Surry Public Schools 168 students
- Mount Desert Public Schools 161 students
- Lamoine Public Schools 137 students
- Southwest Harbor Public Schools 127 students
- Tremont Public Schools 127 students
- Trenton Public Schools 120 students
- Sedgwick Public Schools 97 students
More in Maine
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.