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About Brooks
Town in Maine, United StatesBrooks is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,010 at the 2020 census. The town was incorporated on December 10, 1816, and was named after John Brooks, the Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1815–1816, when the town incorporated. The town of Dexter, which incorporated the same year, was named after the opposing candidate Samuel Dexter. It was during Gov. Brooks' administration that Maine ceased to be a territory of Massachusetts and became a state.
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Housing in Brooks
The typical Brooks home is worth about $285,000, up 4.3% in a year, 32% below the Maine typical home.
Schools in Brooks
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The public schools Brooks’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 82% of Maine’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
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