District Information
The Saco School Department is located in scenic coastal Maine and serves over 1800 students from Pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade. Saco’s elementary schools include a Pre-Kindergarten center, two Kindergarten through second-grade schools (Governor John Fairfield School and Young School), and a third through fifth-grade intermediate school (CK Burns School). Sixth through eighth-grade students attend Saco Middle School (SMS), where they are placed on one of three interdisciplinary teams at each grade level, including project-based teams, a wide range of unified arts during the school day, and a robust selection of after-school extracurriculars. Saco’s high school students attend a local private school, Thornton Academy. Saco features a vibrant town and a revitalized Mill District. This best-in-class picturesque community is just twenty minutes south of Portland and less than two hours away from Boston.