About South Portland Public Schools
South Portland Public Schools is a public school system serving Cumberland County, Maine, based in South Portland. It serves 2,816 students across 7 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: small district. By enrollment it is the #12 largest of Maine’s 203 school systems.
Size and structure
South Portland Public Schools enrolls 2,816 students in 7 schools — an average of about 402 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #12 of 203 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in South Portland Public Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (2,816 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
South Portland Public Schools employs about 284 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 9.9:1 — below the Maine average of about 11.1:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 640.
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 South Portland 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 South Portland 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 South Portland Public Schools’s schools in the NEASC directory.
South Portland Public Schools vs. Maine
See every Maine district side by side in the Maine directory.
Look up South Portland 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):