Public Schools in Maine
570 schools · 206 districts · 168,937 students
Largest Schools in Maine
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Lewiston High School
Lewiston
Noble High School
North Berwick
Bangor High School
Bangor
Oxford Hills Comprehensive H S
Paris
Sanford High School
Sanford
Bonny Eagle High School
Standish
South Portland High School
South Portland
Edward Little High School
Auburn
Windham High School
Windham
Portland High School
Portland
Frequently Asked Questions
Maine has 570 public schools across 206 districts, serving 168,937 students.
The largest school in Maine is Lewiston High School with 1,575 students. Maine has 570 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 54%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.