Caswell Public Schools

Caswell Public Schools is a small school district in Maine that serves a single elementary school, Dawn F Barnes Elementary School, which educates students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. With an enrollment of just 38 students, the school faces significant challenges, ranking 285 out of 289 Maine elementary schools and earning a 0 out of 5 star rating from SchoolDigger.

Dawn F Barnes Elementary School's academic performance is well below the state average, with only 17.86% of students proficient or better in English Language Arts and 25% proficient or better in Math. The school also has a high rate of free and reduced-price lunch recipients at 86.84%, indicating a high-poverty student population, and a chronic absenteeism rate of 23.4%. Despite a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 9.2 to 1, the school's performance has been declining over the past decade, dropping from a ranking of 157 out of 284 Maine elementary schools in 2014-2015 to its current position.

The data suggests that Caswell Public Schools and Dawn F Barnes Elementary School face significant challenges in providing a high-quality education to their students. Addressing the school's low performance, high poverty, and chronic absenteeism will likely require a comprehensive, multi-faceted approach to support the needs of the community and improve student outcomes.