Best Public Schools in Zip Code 04640

Summary:

The 04640 zip code is home to a single elementary school, Hancock Grammar School, which serves grades K-8 with a total enrollment of 174 students. While the school has a predominantly white student population, it faces significant challenges, including consistently low academic performance, high chronic absenteeism, and a large percentage of students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

Hancock Grammar School has ranked in the bottom half of Maine elementary schools for the past three years, receiving a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger. Its academic proficiency rates in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science fall below the state averages. The school's chronic absenteeism rate of 30.7% is also significantly higher than the state average, which could be a contributing factor to its low academic achievement. Nearly half of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population.

Despite the school's challenges, it does have a potential strength in its low student-teacher ratio of 7.9, which may allow for more individualized attention and support for students. However, this does not appear to be translating into higher academic outcomes based on the available data. Overall, the analysis of Hancock Grammar School suggests that the school and the Hancock Public Schools district may need to implement targeted interventions and support to address the persistent issues of low academic performance, high chronic absenteeism, and socioeconomic challenges faced by the student population.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2023)				Ranking (2022)				MEA English Language Arts (2023)	MEA Mathematics (2023)	MEA Science (2023)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2023)
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 (2023)	Statewide Rank (2023)	State Percentile (2023)	SchoolDigger Rating (2023)	Average Standard Score (2022)	Statewide Rank (2022)	State Percentile (2022)	Rank Change from Previous Year	MEA English Language Arts All Grades	MEA Mathematics All Grades	MEA Science All Grades	Total
Hancock Grammar School	Public	K-8	33 Cemetery Road	Hancock	04640	Hancock County	Hancock Public Schools	No	No	No	Yes	(207) 422-6231	174	22	7.9	47.1%	160 (92.0%)	3 (1.7%)	1 (0.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.6%)	9 (5.2%)	24.3	246^th of 290 public elementary schools	15.2%		27.8	154^th of 210 public elementary schools	26.7%	92	56.9	37.3	28.2	$24,529

Cities Near Zip Code 04640

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Hancock	1.8 mi	2	241^st
Sullivan	3.9 mi	3	193^rd
Lamoine	5.07 mi	2	46^th
Trenton	7.04 mi	1	158^th
Bar Harbor	8.25 mi	2	11^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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