
The state's General Purpose Aid to education gets divided among Maine's 286 school administrative units as follows:
- ...the 12 largest (4% of the total number of units) receive 25% of the total.
- ...the 29 largest (10% of the total) receive 50% of the total.
- ...the 62 largest (22% of the total) receive 75% of the total
- and the remaining 224 smallest units (78% of the total) receive 25% of the state subsidy.