Schools · Amherst
Amherst, ME schools
Amherst’s public schools score close to Maine’s averages: 84.5% of students are proficient in reading against 85% statewide. Kids attend Airline Community School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
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B−
Amherst’s School Grade: B-
The public schools Amherst’s kids attend trail 52% of Maine’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
B-Test scores
Maine school districts we grade (176)Better than 48%
Lower resultsHigher results
Maine towns with similar household incomes (317)Better than 61%
Towns in Hancock County (30)Better than 47%
Lower confidence. Built on 36 tested students. With numbers this small, one year can move the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Maine’s state tests, each against the state average. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Maine only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Maine with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Amherst kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Close to the state in reading
Reading (grades PK–8, Airline Community)84.5%
State average 85%
Math (grades PK–8, Airline Community)84.5%
State average 81.3%
Districts
The district serving Amherst
Airline Community School DistrictGrades PK–8 · 1 school · 30 students
$28,167 per studentME $20,630B-Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
We don’t have any schools located in Amherst yet.