Kennebec Intra-District Schools Explained

Address:	7 Reed Street
City:	Hallowell
State:	Maine
Zipcode:	4347
Country:	United States
Type:	Public
Grades:	PreK–12
Superintendent:	Rick Amero (Interim)
Students:	1,883
Teachers:	179.97
Staff:	217.3
Ratio:	10.46

Kennebec Intra-District Schools (KIDS) a.k.a. Regional School Unit 2 (RSU 2) is a school district headquartered in Hallowell, Maine. In addition to Hallowell it serves Dresden, Farmingdale and Monmouth. (Richmond was formally a member, but voted in November, 2022 to leave the district effective July, 2023)^[1]

History

Superintendents:

• 2007-2011: Donald Siviski
• 2011-2015: Virgel Hammonds
• 2015-2019: Bill Zima
• August, 2019-April 2020: Cheri Towle
• April 2020-August 2020: Mary Paine (interim)
• August 2020-February, 2022: Tonya Arnold
• February, 2022-October, 2022: Matt Gilbert
• October, 2022–present: Rick Amero

Curriculum

Circa 1993 the district (then MSAD 16, which included only Hallowell and Farmingdale) received a grant to teach languages that are different from indo-European languages that were key to foreign relations and trade and selected Japanese after considering Maine's foreign trade and conducting a survey of area businesses. Its first Japanese teacher, Naoto Kobayashi, had a wife who vacationed in Maine. The program was for grades 3-7 initially but extended up to grade 12.^[2]

Schools

Middle and high schools:

• Hall-Dale Middle & High School

High schools:

• Monmouth Academy

K-8:

• Monmouth Memorial School

Elementary schools:

• Dresden Elementary School
• Hall-Dale Elementary School
• Marcia Buker Elementary School (Richmond)

Notes and References

1. Web site: About RSU2 and Our Mission . Kennebec Intra-District Schools. 2021-06-01. RSU #2 - Kennebec Intra-District Schools (KidsRSU) 7 Reed Street Hallowell, ME 04347-3047 .
2. News: Gold. Donna. 'Onegaishimasu'. Boston Globe. 2001-07-01. B9, b11. - Clipping of first (B9) page and second (B11) page from Newspapers.com.