Regional School Unit 42/Maine School Admin District 42

Summary:

Regional School Unit 42/Maine School Admin District 42 is home to two schools: Central Aroostook Junior-Senior High School, a high school, and Fort Street School, an elementary school. Both schools have maintained a consistent 3-star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating a reasonable level of performance within their respective grade levels.

Fort Street School stands out for its exceptional academic achievement, consistently outperforming the district and state averages in English Language Arts and Mathematics proficiency. In the 2024-2025 school year, 67.05% of its students were proficient or better in ELA, compared to 62.94% for the district and 63.84% for the state. In Mathematics, 60.23% of its students were proficient or better, compared to 47.55% for the district and 49.38% for the state. However, the school's Science proficiency, at 27.27% in 2023-2024, was lower than the district's 34.29% and the state's 33.98%, suggesting an area for improvement.

Regional School Unit 42/Maine School Admin District 42 schools also share some common characteristics, such as similar enrollment numbers of 166 students, relatively high chronic absenteeism rates of 23.4%, and comparable free and reduced lunch rates, indicating a similar socioeconomic profile of the student populations. The student-teacher ratios are also similar, with Central Aroostook Junior-Senior High School at 8.3 and Fort Street School at 8.7, suggesting a relatively low student-teacher ratio in both schools.

District Detail

35 Pleasant Street
Mars Hill, ME 04758

(207) 425-3771

SchoolDigger Rank:
64^th of 176 Maine districts

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Grades served: PK, KG-12
Students: 333

Primary Schools: 1
Middle Schools: 0
High Schools: 1
Alternative Schools: 0

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2025)				Ranking (2024)				MEA English Language Arts (2025)	MEA Mathematics (2025)	MEA Science (2025)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2024)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	SchoolDigger Rating (2025)	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	Rank Change from Previous Year	MEA English Language Arts All Grades	MEA Mathematics All Grades	MEA Science All Grades	Total
Central Aroostook Junior-Senior High School	Public	7-12	26 Pleasant Street	Mars Hill	04758	Aroostook County	Regional School Unit 42/Maine School Admin District 42	No	No	No	No	(207) 425-2811	157	20	7.9	52.9%	147 (93.6%)	3 (1.9%)	6 (3.8%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	42.4	51^st of 119 public high schools	57.1%		45.4	53^rd of 121 public high schools	56.2%	2	60.0	41.3	46.0	$22,145
Fort Street School	Public	PK, KG-6	38 Fort Street	Mars Hill	04758	Aroostook County	Regional School Unit 42/Maine School Admin District 42	No	No	No	Yes	(207) 429-8514	176	17	10.6	57.4%	157 (89.2%)	2 (1.1%)	8 (4.5%)	1 (0.6%)	3 (1.7%)	3 (1.7%)	2 (1.1%)	66.5	103^rd of 289 public elementary schools	64.4%		64.6	112^th of 288 public elementary schools	61.1%	9	67.1	60.2		$21,558

Districts nearby

District	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Easton Public Schools	8.88 mi	2	51^st
Regional School Unit 79/Maine School Admin District 01	12.93 mi	6	85^th
Regional School Unit 86/Maine School Admin District 20	17.26 mi	2	53^rd
Regional School Unit 45/Maine School Admin District 45	23.49 mi	2	98^th
Regional School Unit 39	24.93 mi	4	117^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Maine Department of Education.

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