Residents in four towns in the Maranacook Community School District voted Tuesday to ratify earlier approvals of their school budgets.

Readfield residents voted 137-98 to approve a $2.1 million budget for their elementary school. Readfield is the only one of four Maranacook-area towns to see its state subsidy, and thus its elementary school budget, rise. The Readfield Elementary School budget will grow by almost $75,000, or 3.7 percent.

The vote in Readfield was 175-59, with one blank ballot, to ratify the proposed budget for the high school and middle school.

Manchester voters signed off on a $1.8 million budget for the town's elementary school. The 2008-09 budget cuts $71,000 -- 3.8 percent -- from the current year's spending plan.

The votes in Manchester were 89 to 12 for the elementary school and 87 to 12, with two blank ballots, for the middle and high schools.

Mount Vernon voters on Tuesday weighed in only on the Maranacook Community High School and Maranacook Community Middle School budgets. They approved the spending plan by a convincing 51-10 margin.

Voters there will have the opportunity to weigh in on their elementary school's budget in a special School Committee meeting on June 7 and again at a townwide referendum June 10.

That town's school board on May 8 approved a $1.1 million budget for the 2008-09 elementary school budget -- a $43,000 -- or 3.8 percent -- cut from the current school year's spending levels.

Wayne voters Tuesday overwhelmingly ratified earlier approval of the school budgets for both the elementary school and the Maranacook Community middle and high schools.

The vote was 78-11 for Wayne Elementary School's budget and 82-7 for Wayne's portion of the middle and high schools.

The budgets take effect for the 2008-09 school year.

The elementary budget totals $733,000, which represents a $19,000 -- or 2.5 percent -- cut from the school's current budget.

The four towns' budget for the middle and high schools totals $10.3 million, a drop of $390,000, or 3.7 percent, from the schools' budget this school year.