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Old 11-06-2011, 02:13 PM
 
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My family of three will be moving to Maine in the relatively near future. We have settled on Yarmouth. But I find myself wondering, as all three of these school districts - Yarmouth, Falmouth and Cape Elizabeth - seem to have very good schools.

How would these three school districts compare? We will be looking for their ability to integrate a totally homeschooled child into grade 8, before a transition to the public high school.

Also, we are curious about other ways in which to distinguish these three towns. How are they alike? How are they different? [Good grief. Can you tell that I am a reformed college professor - "Compare and contrast these three Maine communities. . . " ]

This may be a cross post as I first asked this question on a different thread.
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Old 11-10-2011, 05:47 AM
 
Location: Cape Elizabeh, ME
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Your questions are a bit hard for this forum, because I think the only person who can really answer is some one who has lived in the communities or spent some time in all of them.
How ever I'll take a brief stab on a small portion of the big picture you have to consider.
One thing you might consider and its a pretty small factor is what would your routine be or what do you want it to be. example Falmouth and Yarmouth both have shopping areas and a few big box stores so your trips to those places would be very close. By contrast Cape elizabeth has an ordinance against big box stores, Although the drive to Scarborough the back way is a nice one and I find I make more trips into Portland for trader joes or to go out to eat. I Wonder if I would go to portland as much if I lived north?
Small contrast.....but its an attempt.
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Old 11-11-2011, 05:10 AM
 
Location: Maine
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We live now in Falmouth. This district was touted by Forbes Magazine as the best school for the money in the country (not that I put a heckuva lot of stock in those "lists.") Each of the three districts is very good, from what I can tell.

Living in Falmouth, it is very easy to hop on either 295 or 95 to get to Portland or the mall in S. Portland. As mentioned, CE, depending on where you are, is bit more difficult to get anywhere (though still not bad at all, relatively speaking.)

I cannot speak to the transitional a homeschooler issue though. If you have the financial resources, Waynflete in Portland is an excellent school. But it's about $24,500 a year.
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Old 11-12-2011, 05:15 AM
 
Location: Northern Maine
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If we are going to stray into private schools, the best ones for the money in the area are Cheverus for boys and McCauley for girls. Their graduates get into top colleges easily and their sports teams win state championships. I expect Cheverus will win the state championship in football today. They did last year,
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Old 11-12-2011, 09:15 AM
 
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My family of three will be moving to Maine in the relatively near future. We have settled on Yarmouth. But I find myself wondering, as all three of these school districts - Yarmouth, Falmouth and Cape Elizabeth - seem to have very good schools.

How would these three school districts compare? We will be looking for their ability to integrate a totally homeschooled child into grade 8, before a transition to the public high school.

Also, we are curious about other ways in which to distinguish these three towns. How are they alike? How are they different? [Good grief. Can you tell that I am a reformed college professor - "Compare and contrast these three Maine communities. . . " ]

This may be a cross post as I first asked this question on a different thread.
You can put a bad seed in the best of schools and still be a bad seed

you can also take a good well adjusted student, and they will succeed in just about any school in maine

I dont think you have any worries whatsoever in the 3 towns you mentioned
even if you got a response from each school district, it's going to be biased by their particular experience, the student could have one clash with a teacher and paint the whole school system, -sucks

I had a nephew go thru yarmouth and didnt hear any issues, but that doesnt mean its a better or worse system
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