Government directory/Maine/Dependent school system
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 116737

Wiscasset Public Schools.

Dependent school system in Maine · Census county area: Lincoln.

Dependent school systemTownshipFunctioning
School system at a glance

Students, schools, and public money.

Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.

428students in the finance record
2operating schools connected
$23,748current spending per pupil
Six years of enrollment and school finance

See what changed—not just one year.

Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment42814.6% lower than 2019
Current spending / pupil$23,7483.1% lower than 2019 after inflation · 18.9% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$11.6M12.5% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$318.0KUp from $0 reported in 2019
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 501; 2020: 516; 2021: 454; 2022: 440; 2023: 461; 2024: 428528472416201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $24,498; 2020: $22,986; 2021: $25,061; 2022: $24,244; 2023: $21,153; 2024: $23,748$25,608$23,107$20,606201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

20194.1% F26.4% S69.5% L
20207.7% F36.0% S56.2% L
20216.1% F27.9% S66.0% L
20227.0% F28.2% S64.8% L
202315.3% F23.5% S61.2% L
20248.7% F28.6% S62.6% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
2019501$19,966$10,354,000$10,323,000$0
2020516$18,965$6,758,000$9,946,000$0
2021454$21,648$10,481,000$10,165,000$61,000
2022440$22,618$10,628,000$10,197,000$30,000
2023461$20,547$11,072,000$9,932,000$45,000
2024428$23,748$11,604,000$11,617,000$318,000

Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.

Where the money comes from

$11.6M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal8.7%$1.01M
State28.6%$3.32M
Local62.6%$7.27M
Total expenditures$11.6M
Current spending$10.5M
Instruction$5.63M
Support services$4.55M
Capital outlay$1.07M
Debt outstanding$318,000

Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.

District contact

Wiscasset Public Schools

Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address225 Gardiner Road, Wiscasset, ME, 04578
Open district website →
Still needed for a complete civic record

The federal layer is useful—but it is not the whole school board.

  • Current board members, seat structure, terms, and vacancies
  • Next board election, candidates, filing rules, and past results
  • Exact attendance and board-seat boundaries for an address
  • Meeting agendas, minutes, votes, policies, and public-record links
  • School-level outcomes, audited contracts and vendors, and inflation-adjusted spending comparisons
The source record

A functioning Census entity.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
116737
Record type
Dependent school system
Classification
Township
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing address225 GARDINER ROAD · WISCASSET, ME · 04578
Census contact/title fieldSuperintendent
County areaLincoln

Websites are primarily self-reported and received only limited Census Bureau quality control. County area can mean the area most served or the headquarters county when boundaries cross counties.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment4612023

Parent governmentWiscassetOpen parent record →

Evidence boundary

What each source proves—and what it does not.

Established by the published records

  • The entity or system appears in the 2025 Census listing.
  • Its Census category, identifier, and functioning/dormant field.
  • Only the location, function, population, enrollment, and contact fields actually published.

Not established by these records

  • Whether each governing or administrative role is elected, appointed, or mixed.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.