Mt Desert Elementary School
Northeast Harbor, ME · Middle School · Grades -1-8
Mt Desert Elementary School is a middle school in Northeast Harbor, ME with 153 students enrolled and a 66% proficiency rate. Part of Mount Desert Public Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Mt Desert Elementary School is a middle school located in Northeast Harbor, Maine. The school serves 153 students in grades -1-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 7.0:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 66% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
15% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Mt Desert Elementary School is part of the Mount Desert Public Schools in Maine.
How This School Compares
Mt Desert Elementary School has 153 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Mount Desert Public Schools (153 students). Its 66% proficiency rate is 0 percentage points above the district average of 66%. Compared to the Maine state average of 54%, the school performs 12 points higher. With a 7.0:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Mt Desert Elementary School has 153 students enrolled in grades -1-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 7.0:1.
According to EDFacts data, 66% of students at Mt Desert Elementary School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Mt Desert Elementary School is part of the Mount Desert Public Schools in Northeast Harbor, Maine. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.