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School District Spending Data available! — How do Maine's school districts spend their money? Detailed spending data has been available on the state Department of Education's website for years... more
Welcome to GreatSchoolsforME.org! How can Mainers ensure that their children attend the very best schools? In cooperation with GreatSchools.org, GreatSchoolsforME.org provides site visitors with a wealth of information on Maine schools, including performance data and parent reviews, as well as comprehensive data on school spending and opportunities for school choice.
What kinds of information can you find at GreatSchoolsforME.org?
Information on any school in Maine.
Through our partners at greatschools.org, you have access to a wealth of information about every school in Maine. Click here to learn about the school of your choice. Greatschools.org provides performance-based rankings of schools as well, which you can find here, and also allows site visitors to post school reviews. Find those reviews and post one of your own by clicking here. We even have information about Maine's best preschools.
NEW! We have now added test score and graduation rate data to our site. Find test scores for Maine's Elementary and Middle Schools here, and high school test scores and graduation rate data here.
Information about school choice options available in Maine towns.
Towns across Maine offer students a choice of high schools. Is your town one of them? Use our interactive map to find out. Learn more about the map here, and click here to get data on which schools those Maine students that have school choice actually attend. Visit our School Choice in Maine page to find out more about our state’s school choice options.
Information about other educational options.
What are some other educational options? Click here to learn about Maine’s Town Academies and other independent schools. Click here to learn about homeschooling in Maine. Parents of students with special needs may have certain school choice rights. Learn about those here. If we lived in one of 39 other states, public charter schools would be an option for Maine families. Learn more about them on our charter schools page.
Information about spending by Maine’s school districts.
How much does your school district spend and how do they spend it? Click here to find out. We also have access to payroll information for every school district in Maine, which you can find here.
Research on Maine schools.
You can access education research by The Maine Heritage Policy Center by visiting our homepage, and you can find access to research reports from across the country by clicking here.
Information on how to get involved.
Follow Maine’s education issues on our blog, and if you are ready to help us bring real reform to Maine schools and expand school choice options to all Maine families, please visit our Get Involved page and sign up!
GreatSchoolsforME.org is not affiliated with the Great Schools Partnership.
About The Maine Heritage Policy Center
The Maine Heritage Policy Center is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational organization based in Portland, Maine. The Maine Heritage Policy Center formulates and promotes free market, conservative public policies in the areas of economic growth, fiscal matters, health care, education and government transparency – providing solutions that will benefit all the people of Maine. Contributions to MHPC are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
About Stephen Bowen
Stephen Bowen serves as the director of the Center for Education Excellence, and focuses on education policy for The Maine Heritage Policy Center.
He taught in middle and high schools for ten years before joining The Maine Heritage Policy Center in 2007. In 2002, he was elected to the first of two terms in the Maine House of Representatives, representing Camden and Rockport. During that time, he served on the Marine Resources and State and Local Government Committees, and the Select Committee on Regionalization and Community Cooperation. He spent his second term on the legislature's Appropriations Committee, during which time he helped negotiate several state budget and bond bills.
Since leaving the legislature in 2006, Steve has authored reports for the Center on a number of education policy issues, including school funding, teacher pay, school district consolidation, charter schools and school choice.
Steve has a B.A. in Political Science from Drew University and a Masters of Education from George Mason University.
NEW! How did your local Elementary and Middle Schools do on state tests? Find out here!
NEW! How did Maine's High Schools do on state tests? What are their graduation rates? Click here!
Get information about any Maine school here.
Find out how your education dollars are spent here.
Thousands of Maine students can choose the high school they attend. Click here to learn about school choice in Maine.
