About Saco Public Schools
Saco Public Schools is a public school system serving York County, Maine, based in Saco. It serves 1,942 students across 5 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a suburb: mid-size district. By enrollment it is the #29 largest of Maine’s 203 school systems.
Size and structure
Saco Public Schools enrolls 1,942 students in 5 schools — an average of about 388 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #29 of 203 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Saco Public Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (1,942 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Saco Public Schools employs about 167 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 11.6:1 — above the Maine average of about 11.1:1. Total district staff is roughly 400.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Maine funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Saco Public Schools are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Maine rates schools under its ESSA Model of School Support (Emerging, Developing, Meeting or Excelling) on achievement and growth in math and ELA, graduation, English-language progress and chronic absenteeism. Look up Saco Public Schools on the Maine DOE dashboard.
Accreditation status
The main voluntary K-12 accreditor serving Maine is NEASC (the New England Association of Schools and Colleges); accreditation is voluntary, not a state requirement. Search Saco Public Schools’s schools in the NEASC directory.
Saco Public Schools vs. Maine
See every Maine district side by side in the Maine directory.
Look up Saco Public Schools’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):