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Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...

. Public school systems in Maine are in several types of school administrative units: Cities which have their own School Departments, also known as cities with individual supervision; School Administrative Districts (S.A.D.s) typically made up of 2 or more cities who cooperatively provide education to all of their students; Regional School Units; Community School Districts (C.S.D.s) in which 2 or more cities cooperate to provide education to some or sometimes all grade levels, Unions of Towns, in which two or more school administrative units share a common superintendent but are otherwise separate, and, in unorganized townships, also known as unorganized territory, schools which are run directly by the state. The 3 Indian reservation school systems function as a union of towns.Types of School Administrative Units in Maine
Maine Department of Education, retrieved 2008-05-29

School Departments

School Departments serve a single town or city. Some school systems may style themselves as a "school district," others as a "school department."

A–C

* Acton School Department * Alexander School Department *

Andover School Department Andover may refer to: Places Australia * Andover, Tasmania Canada * Andover Parish, New Brunswick * Perth-Andover, New Brunswick United Kingdom * Andover, Hampshire, England ** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station United States * Ando ...

* Appleton School Department * Athens School Department * Auburn School Department * Augusta School Department *

Baileyville School Department Baileyville may refer to: *Baileyville, Illinois *Baileyville, Kansas Baileyville is an unincorporated community in western Nemaha County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the community and nearby areas was 182. ...

* Bangor School Department * Bar Harbor School Department * Baring Plantation School Department * Beals School Department *

Beaver Cove School Department Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the Holarctic realm, temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant taxon, extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beave ...

* Beddington School Department * Biddeford School Department *

Blue Hill School Department Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when ob ...

* Bowerbank School Department *

Bremen School Department Bremen ( Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consi ...

* Brewer School Department *

Bridgewater School Department Bridgewater or Bridgwater may refer to: Companies * Bridgewater Associates, global investment manager * Bridgewater Systems, Canadian software company Education * Bridgewater College, Virginia, United States * Bridgewater High School (disambi ...

Brighton Plantation School Department Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Ag ...

Bristol School Department Bristol () is a City status in the United Kingdom, city, Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, Bristol, River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Glouces ...

Brooklin School Department Brooklin may refer to *Brooklin, Ontario, Canada *Brooklin, California, United States *Brooklin, Maine, United States *Brooklin, West Virginia, United States *Brooklin (São Paulo Metro), Brazil *Brooklin Novo, or adjacent Brooklin Velho, neighbour ...

Brooksville School Department Brooksville is the name of several places in the United States: * Brooksville, Blount County, Alabama * Brooksville, Morgan County, Alabama * Brooksville, Florida **Brooksville Army Airfield, named after the Florida town * Brooksville, Georgia * B ...

Brunswick School Department The Brunswick School Department is the school district serving Brunswick, Maine. History In September 2013, due to the growing population of Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School, the district was deciding whether to reassign the fifth grade ...

Burlington School Department Burlington may refer to: Places Canada Geography * Burlington, Newfoundland and Labrador * Burlington, Nova Scotia * Burlington, Ontario, the most populous city with the name "Burlington" * Burlington, Prince Edward Island * Burlington Bay, no ...

Byron School Department George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the ...

Calais School Department Calais ( , , traditionally , ) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department, of which it is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's Pref ...

Cape Elizabeth School Department A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment which drapes the wearer's back, arms, and chest, and connects at the neck. History Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. Th ...

* Caratunk School Department * Carrabassett Valley School Department * Carroll Plantation School Department * Castine School Department * Caswell School Department * Charlotte School Department * Chebeague Island School Department * Cherryfield School Department * Cooper School Department * Coplin Plantation School Department * Cranberry Isles School Department * Crawford School Department * Cutler School Department

D–H

* Damariscotta School Department * Dayton School Department * Deblois School Department * Dedham School Department *

Dennistown Plantation School Department Dennistown is a Plantation (Maine), plantation in Somerset County, Maine, Somerset County, Maine, United States. The population was 61 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the plant ...

* Dennysville School Department * Drew Plantation School Department * Eagle Lake School Department *

East Machias School Department East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the f ...

* East Millinocket School Department * Easton School Department * Eastport School Department * Edgecomb School Department *

Ellsworth School Department Ellsworth may refer to: People *Ellsworth (surname) * Ellsworth P. Bertholf, US Coast Guard commodore *Ellsworth B. Buck, American politician *Ellsworth Bunker, American diplomat * Ellsworth Burnett, American politician *Ellsworth Cunningham, also ...

Eustis School Department Eustis may refer to: People *Abraham Eustis, American Army officer and lawyer *Charles Eustis Bohlen (1904–1974), American ambassador *Collin Eustis, American Cyber Security Expert *Dorothy Harrison Eustis, dog breeder and philanthropist * Georg ...

* Falmouth School Department * Fayette School Department * Frenchboro School Department * Georgetown School Department * Gilead School Department * Glenburn School Department *

Glenwood Plantation School Department Glenwood may refer to: Places Canada * Glenwood, Alberta (village) * Glenwood, Alberta (former hamlet) * Glenwood, Edmonton, a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta * Glenwood, Manitoba * Glenwood, Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada * ...

* Gorham School Department * Grand Isle School Department * Grand Lake Stream Plantation School Department *

Greenbush School Department Greenbush or Green Bush may refer to: Places In Canada: * Greenbush, Ontario In the United States: * Greenbush, Georgia * Greenbush, Illinois * Greenbush, Kansas * Greenbush, Maine * Greenbush, Massachusetts ** Greenbush Line, a branch of the ...

* Greenville School Department * Hancock School Department * Harmony School Department *

Hermon School Department Mount Hermon ( ar, جبل الشيخ or جبل حرمون / ALA-LC: ''Jabal al-Shaykh'' ("Mountain of the Sheikh") or ''Jabal Haramun''; he, הַר חֶרְמוֹן, ''Har Hermon'') is a mountain, mountain cluster constituting the southern e ...

Highland Plantation School Department Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally speaking, upland (or uplands) refers to ranges of hills, typically from up to while highland (or highlands) is ...

Hope School Department Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: "expect with confidence" and "to cherish ...

I–O

* Isle au Haut School Department * Islesboro School Department * Jefferson School Department * Jonesboro School Department *

Jonesport School Department Jonesport is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,245 at the 2020 census. Jonesport is a fishing and lobstering town. It contains the villages or hamlets of Jonesport, Mason Bay, Monsapec, and West Jonesport. ...

Kingsburg Plantation School Department Kingsburg can refer to: *Kingsburg, California *Kingsburg, Nova Scotia *Kingsburg, South Dakota See also *Kingsbury (disambiguation) Kingsbury may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Kingsbury, London, a district of northwest London in the bor ...

* Kittery School Department *

Lake View Plantation School Department A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larger ...

* Lakeville School Department * Lamoine School Department * Lewiston School Department * Limestone School Department * Lincoln Plantation School Department * Lincolnville School Department * Lisbon School Department * Long Island School Department * Lowell School Department * Machias School Department * Machiasport School Department *

Macwahoc Plantation School Department Macwahoc Plantation is a plantation in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 62 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the plantation has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.55% ...

* Madawaska School Department *

Marshfield School Department Marshfield may refer to various places. In some instances, the name is a corruption of march, meaning a border. In the United Kingdom *Marshfield, Gloucestershire, England *Marshfield, Newport, Wales In the United States *Marshfield, Indiana *Mars ...

* Meddybemps School Department * Medford School Department *

Medway School Department Medway is a unitary authority district and conurbation in Kent, South East England. It had a population of 278,016 in 2019. The unitary authority was formed in 1998 when Rochester-upon-Medway amalgamated with the Borough of Gillingham to for ...

* Milford School Department *

Millinocket School Department Millinocket School Department is a school district headquartered in Millinocket, Maine. Its schools are Granite Street School and Stearns Junior-Senior High School. In April 2012, due to decreasing enrollment in the high school, the district su ...

* Minot School Department *

Monhegan Plantation School Department Monhegan () is an island in the Gulf of Maine located in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. A plantation, a minor civil division in the state of Maine falling between unincorporated area and a town, it is located about off the mainland. Th ...

* Moro Plantation School Department * Mount Desert School Department *

Nashville Plantation School Department Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the List of muni ...

* New Sweden School Department * Newcastle School Department * Nobleboro School Department * Northfield School Department * Northport School Department *

Orient School Department The Orient is a term for the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of ''Occident'', the Western World. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the ...

* Orrington School Department * Otis School Department

P–Z

* Pembroke School Department * Penobscot School Department * Perry School Department * Pleasant Ridge Plantation School Department * Portage Lake School Department * Portland School Department * Princeton School Department *

Reed Plantation School Department Reed or Reeds may refer to: Science, technology, biology, and medicine * Reed bird (disambiguation) * Reed pen, writing implement in use since ancient times * Reed (plant), one of several tall, grass-like wetland plants of the order Poales * R ...

* Robbinston School Department *

Rogue Bluff School Department A rogue is a person or entity that flouts accepted norms of behavior. Rogue or rogues may also refer to: Companies * Rogue Ales, a microbrewery in Newport, Oregon * Rogue Arts, a film production company * Rogue Entertainment, a software comp ...

* Saco School Department * Sanford School Department * Scarborough School Department * Sebago School Department * Seboeis Plantation School Department *

Sedgwick School Department Sedgwick may refer to: People *Sedgwick (surname) Places Australia * Sedgwick, Victoria England * Sedgwick, Cumbria, England * Sedgwick, West Sussex, England * Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, England United States * Sedgwick, Arkansas * Sedgwic ...

* Shirley School Department *

South Bristol School Department South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

* South Portland School Department *

Southport School Department Southport is a seaside resort, seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England. At the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 census, it had a population of 90,336, making it the List of North West England cities and metro ...

* Southwest Harbor School Department * St. George School Department * Surry School Department * Talmadge School Department *

The Forks Plantation School Department ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

* Tremont School Department * Trenton School Department *

Upton School Department Upton may refer to: Places United Kingdom England * Upton, Slough, Berkshire (in Buckinghamshire until 1974) * Upton, Buckinghamshire, a hamlet near Aylesbury * Upton, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough * Upton, Huntingdonshire, a location in Cambridg ...

Vanceboro School Department Vanceboro is the name of several places in the United States of America: * Vanceboro, Maine, a town ** Vanceboro (CDP), Maine, the main village in the town * Vanceboro, North Carolina Vanceboro is a town in Craven County, North Carolina, United S ...

* Vassalboro School Department * Veazie School Department * Waite School Department * Waterville School Department * Wesley School Department *

West Bath School Department West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...

West Forks Plantation School Department West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some R ...

Westbrook School Department Westbrook may refer to: Places Australia * Westbrook, Queensland, a town south-west of Toowoomba. New Zealand * Westbrook, New Zealand, a suburb of Palmerston North United Kingdom * Westbrook, Berkshire * Westbrook, Kent, part of Margate * We ...

* Westmanland School Department * Whiting School Department * Whitneyville School Department * Willimantic School Department * Winslow School Department *

Winterville Plantation School Department Winterville or Wintersville may refer to: * Winterville (band), a British-based blues-rock trio ;Places in the United States * Winterville, Georgia * Wintersville, Missouri * Winterville, North Carolina * Wintersville, Ohio * Wintersville, Pennsyl ...

* Winthrop School Department * Wiscasset School Department * Woodland School Department * Woodville School Department * Yarmouth School Department * York School Department

School Administrative Districts

School Administrative Districts (S.A.D.s) typically made up of 2 or more

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

who cooperatively provide education to all of their students. , 184 cities and towns were served by 52 S.A.D.s, numbered 1 to 76 with numbers 2, 5, 9, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26, 34, 36, 38, 39, 43, 47, 48, 50, 56, 62, 66, 67, 69, 71, and 73 skipped.

Regional School Units

Starting in 2008, smaller school districts around the state were required to combine into Regional School Units (RSUs) or pay a hefty penalty.

Community School Districts

Community School Districts (C.S.D.s) in which 2 or more cities cooperate to provide education to some or sometimes all grade levels. * Airline Community School District –

Amherst Amherst may refer to: People * Amherst (surname), including a list of people with the name * Earl Amherst of Arracan in the East Indies, a title in the British Peerage; formerly ''Baron Amherst'' * Baron Amherst of Hackney of the City of London, ...

Aurora An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), also commonly known as the polar lights, is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of bri ...

, Great Pond, Osborn * Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District –

Boothbay Boothbay is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,003 at the 2020 census. It includes the villages of Back Narrows, Dover, East Boothbay, Linekin, Oak Hill, Ocean Point, Spruce Shores, and Trevett. The Boothbay regi ...

Boothbay Harbor Boothbay Harbor is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,027 at the 2020 census. It includes the villages of Bayville, Sprucewold, and West Boothbay Harbor. During summer months, the entire Boothbay Harbor regio ...

* Deer Isle-Stonington Community School District –

Deer Isle Deer Isle is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,194 at the 2020 census. Notable landmarks in Deer Isle are the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Stonington Opera House, and the town's many art galleries. ...

, Stonington * East Range Community School District – Topsfield * Five Town Community School District – Appleton, Camden,

Hope Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: "expect with confidence" and "to cherish ...

, Lincolnville, Rockport *

Great Salt Bay Community School District Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" *Artel Great (born ...

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Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

, Damariscotta,

Newcastle Newcastle usually refers to: *Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England *Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England *Newcastle, New South Wales, a metropolitan area in Australia, named after Newcastle ...

* Moosabec Community School District – Beals,

Jonesport Jonesport is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,245 at the 2020 census. Jonesport is a fishing and lobstering town. It contains the villages or hamlets of Jonesport, Mason Bay, Monsapec, and West Jonesport. ...

Mount Desert Community School District Mount Desert Island High School (MDIHS) is a public high school in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States. It was established in 1968 and is part of the Mount Desert Island Regional School District. History Mount Desert Island High School opened in ...

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Bar Harbor Bar Harbor is a resort town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population is 5,089. During the summer and fall seasons, it is a popular tourist destination and, until a catastrophic fire i ...

Mount Desert Mount Desert is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,146 at the 2020 census. Incorporated in 1789, the town currently encompasses the villages of Otter Creek, Seal Harbor, Northeast Harb ...

Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. Located on Mount Desert Island, the population was 1,756 at the 2020 census. The municipality contains within it the villages of Southwest Harbor, Manset, Seawall, Wonderland, ...

, Tremont *

Wells-Ogunquit Community School District The Wells-Ogunquit Community School District (also known as Wells-Ogunquit CSD or CSD 18) provides education for students of all ages in the coastal southern Maine towns of Wells and Ogunquit. History The district was created by the Maine Legi ...

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Ogunquit Ogunquit ( ) is a resort town in York County, Maine. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,577. Ogunquit is part of the Portland– South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Ogunquit, which means "beau ...

Wells Wells most commonly refers to: * Wells, Somerset, a cathedral city in Somerset, England * Well, an excavation or structure created in the ground * Wells (name) Wells may also refer to: Places Canada *Wells, British Columbia England * Wells ...

Unions of Towns

In Unions of Towns, two or more school administrative units share a common superintendent but are otherwise separate. * School Union 60 – Beaver Cove, Greenville * School Union 69 – Appleton,

, Lincolnville * School Union 76 –

Brooklin Brooklin may refer to *Brooklin, Ontario, Canada *Brooklin, California, United States *Brooklin, Maine, United States *Brooklin, West Virginia, United States *Brooklin (São Paulo Metro), Brazil *Brooklin Novo, or adjacent Brooklin Velho, neighbour ...

, Sedgwick, Stonington * School Union 93 – Blue Hill, Brooksville, Castine,

Penobscot The Penobscot (Abenaki: ''Pαnawάhpskewi'') are an Indigenous people in North America from the Northeastern Woodlands region. They are organized as a federally recognized tribe in Maine and as a First Nations band government in the Atlantic pr ...

, Surry * School Union 103 – Beals,

* School Union 122 –

New Sweden New Sweden ( sv, Nya Sverige) was a Swedish colony along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in what is now the United States from 1638 to 1655, established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great military power. New Sweden form ...

, Westmanland,

Woodland A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the ''plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see ...

Indian Schools

The 3 Indian reservation school systems function as a union of towns. *

Maine Indian Education Maine () is a state in the New England New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New Yor ...

– Indian Island, Indian Township, Pleasant Point

Unorganized Territory

In unorganized townships, also known as unorganized territory, schools which are run directly by the state. * Education in the unorganized territory (Maine)

References

External links

Maine Department of Education
{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of School Districts In Maine *

School districts A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations. North America United States In the U.S, most K–12 public schools function as units of local school districts, whic ...