Best Public Schools in Friendship, ME

Summary:

The city of Friendship, Maine is home to a single standout elementary school, the Friendship Village School, which serves grades K-6 and has a total enrollment of 69 students. This school is part of the Regional School Unit 40/Maine School Admin District 40, which is ranked 82 out of 176 districts in the state and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.

The Friendship Village School is an exceptional educational institution, consistently ranking among the top 30 elementary schools in Maine over the past three years, with a high ranking of 28th out of 288 schools in 2023-2024. The school has maintained a 5-star rating from SchoolDigger for the past two years, indicating excellent performance. Its students demonstrate significantly higher proficiency rates in both English Language Arts and Mathematics compared to the district and state averages, with an ELA proficiency rate of 80% and a Mathematics proficiency rate of 65.71% in the 2024-2025 school year.

While the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 23.4% in the 2023-2024 school year is higher than the state average, the school's low student-teacher ratio of 7.1 to 1 is a notable strength, likely contributing to its ability to provide personalized instruction and support to its students, 40.58% of whom were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in the same school year. The Friendship Village School's exceptional performance and dedicated approach to education make it a shining example of academic excellence within the state of Maine.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2025)				Ranking (2024)				MEA English Language Arts (2025)	MEA Mathematics (2025)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2024)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	SchoolDigger Rating (2025)	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	Rank Change from Previous Year	MEA English Language Arts All Grades	MEA Mathematics All Grades	Total
Friendship Village School	Public	K-6	23 School Street	Friendship	04547	Knox County	Regional School Unit 40/Maine School Admin District 40	No	No	No	No	(207) 832-5057	62	10	6.3	45.2%	59 (95.2%)	1 (1.6%)	1 (1.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (1.6%)	86.7	39^th of 289 public elementary schools	86.5%		89.4	28^th of 288 public elementary schools	90.3%	11	80.0	65.7	$29,611

Cities Near Friendship

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Owls Head	1.38 mi	1	30^th
Rockland	2.6 mi	3	157^th
Thomaston	4.85 mi	3	100^th
Cushing	8.21 mi	1	15^th
Tenants Harbor	8.41 mi	2	76^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Maine Department of Education.

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