Original Research by School Decision on East Range Csd
East Range CSD is a prekindergarten-through-eighth-grade district in Maine, operating a single school, East Range II CSD School. Publicly available records associate the district with Topsfield, Maine. It is an exceptionally small district, with total enrollment across all grades fitting within what one would expect of a single small rural classroom. Some grade levels have no students enrolled in the current year, which is typical of communities where population is sparse and cohorts vary widely from year to year.
The student body is predominantly white, with small representation from Black, Hispanic, American Indian or Alaska Native, and multiracial students. The district does not report free-or-reduced-price-lunch data, special-education enrollment, or English-learner figures. Without those fields, there is no basis to characterize the economic makeup of the student body or the share of students receiving specialized services.
State assessment results for the current school year are not available. The district serves grades three through eight, which are tested under Maine's Through Year Assessment in math and English language arts and the Maine Science Assessment. Because the tested grade range is present, the gap in results is not explained by an untested grade band. The data was simply not reported or not available in the sources reviewed. No trend data from prior years is available either, so there is no academic performance picture to describe from the information on hand.
Graduation rate does not apply here. East Range CSD ends at eighth grade and does not operate a high school, so there is no graduation rate to report.
A search for recent parent-relevant district changes turned up no lasting shifts over the period reviewed. Basic district profile and historical information was found, but nothing tied to program changes, staffing shifts, boundary adjustments, or facility decisions with ongoing impact.
No locale brief, community context, housing data, school environment details, staffing information, course-access data, discipline data, or neighbor comparison was available for this district. Without that material, there is no basis to describe the surrounding community, its housing market, how this district sits relative to neighboring districts, or what programs and supports the school offers beyond its grade band.
What can be said is that East Range CSD is a very small, single-school district serving the early and middle grades in rural Maine. Families considering this district would want to contact the school directly for information about academic performance, student support services, and program offerings, as the publicly available data reviewed here does not provide a basis to assess those dimensions. The district's small size means individual attention is likely a defining feature of the experience, but the data available does not confirm specifics about class structure, staffing ratios, or available services.
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