East Range II Community School District

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East Range II Community School District is a school district headquartered in Topsfield, Maine. The district's sole school is East Range II CSD School, a K-8 school. [1] It is a part of the Eastern Maine Area School System (Alternative Organizational System 90 or AOS 90).

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History

In 1973 voters in Topsfield approved creating the school district. [2]

The district was created including Topsfield, a town; and Codyville, then a plantation. The district committee was first created in November 1973. [3]

The East Range II School campus opened in 1976. The cost was $200,000. [4]

In 2019 Codyville de-organized, [5] and as a result, left the school district. [6] As of 2025 the Maine Department of Education, which coordinates education in unorganized areas, assigns Codyville to East Range II school. [7]

School

In 2023, the school had 25 students. Teachers had certifications to teach all relevant grade levels, and their classrooms had students of different grades. Joyce Kryszak of The Maine Monitor described East Range II CSD as "a hub, taking students from several surrounding far-flung towns and unorganized territories". [8]

References

  1. "East Range II Csd School". National Center for Educational Statistics . Retrieved 2025-08-05.
  2. "Topsfield approves proposal for two-area school district". The Bangor Daily News . 1973-09-13. p.  22 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "New school district to pick chairman". The Bangor Daily News . Bangor, Maine. 1973-11-15. p.  22 via Newspapers.com.
  4. Cleaves, Herb (1980-10-22). "Topsfield recycles school". The Bangor Daily News . Vol. 92, no. 121. Bangor, Maine. pp.  1, 18 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-11-07. Retrieved 2019-11-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "An Act Authorizing the Deorganization of Codyville Plantation". Maine Legislature . Retrieved 2025-08-05.
  7. "Education in the Unorganized Territory - Find Your School". Maine Department of Education . Retrieved 2025-07-13.
  8. Kryszak, Joyce (2023-02-11). "Small schools struggle, thrive, and fight to stay open". The Maine Monitor . Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting . Retrieved 2025-07-13.