Gould Academy

Bethel · ME · Private independent

Private

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How Gould Academy compares for families

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  • LocallyME sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Summit Achievement, Hezion Academy, Bridgton Academy and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Your state's public flagship

University of Maine

96%
admit rate
$13,326
in-state tuition/yr · $36,756 out-of-state

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $17,510/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Their published matriculation list

Where their graduates enrolled

Gould Academy publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 154 colleges, in the document's own order.

Years, as the document states them
Matches made by Gould students from 2020 to 2025

Alfred University American University Amherst College Arizona State University (Tempe) (3) Babson College (2) Bates College (4) Bennington College Bentley University Blinn College Bocconi University Boston College (4) Boston University (7) Bowdoin College (3) Bowie State University Brandeis University California State University (San Marcos) Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University (2) Central Maine Community College Central Oregon Community College Champlain College Charleston Southern University Clarkson University Colby College (5) College for Creative Studies College of Charleston College of the Atlantic (2) Colorado College (5) Colorado State University (Fort Collins)
and 124 more
Connecticut College Culinary Institute of America Dartmouth College (2) Dean College Delaware Valley University Denison University (2) DePauw University Dickinson College (2) Drew University Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Prescott) Emmanuel College (3) Fairfield University (3) Flagler College Fort Lewis College George Washington University (5) Gettysburg College Gonzaga University Gordon College Grove City College Hamilton College Harvard University High Point University Hofstra University IE University Ithaca College James Madison University Johns Hopkins University Johnson & Wales University (Providence) Kenyon College Lees-McRae College Lesley University London Metropolitan University Louisiana State University (2) Loyola Marymount University Loyola University New Orleans Macalester College Maine Maritime Academy Mass College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Maritime Academy McGill University Michigan State University (3) Middlebury College (3) Montana State University (3) Mount Holyoke College New York University (7) North Carolina State University Northeastern University (6) Northwestern University (2) NYU Abu Dhabi Paul Smith’s College Penn State University (Behrend) Pitzer College Plymouth State University (2) Quinnipiac University Regis College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (3) Rhode Island College Rochester Institute of Technology (4) Rocky Mountain College Rutgers University (New Brunswick) (4) Saint Mary’s College of California Salem State University San Diego State University Savannah College of Art and Design (2) School of the Art Institute of Chicago Skidmore College (2) Smith College Southern Maine Community College (2) Springfield College St. Lawrence University (7) St. Olaf College Stetson University Suffolk University Syracuse University (3) Texas A&M University (2) The University of Alabama Tufts University (2) Union College (2) University of British Columbia (2) University of California (Berkeley) University of California (Irvine) (2) University of California (Los Angeles) University of California (San Diego) University of Colorado Boulder (7) University of Connecticut (2) University of Delaware University of Denver (4) University of Florida University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (3) University of Iowa University of Kentucky University of Maine (8) University of Maine at Farmington University of Maryland (College Park) University of Massachusetts (Amherst) (3) University of Miami University of Michigan (2) University of New England (2) University of New Hampshire (8) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (3) University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of Oregon (2) University of Redlands University of Rhode Island University of Rochester University of South Carolina University of Toronto (2) University of Tulsa University of Utah (10) University of Vermont (14) University of Virginia (Main Campus) University of Washington (Seattle Campus) (4) University of Wisconsin (Madison) (2) University of Wyoming Vassar College Villanova University (2) Washington College Wellesley College Wentworth Institute of Technology Westminster University (3) Whitman College William & Mary Worcester Polytechnic Institute (4)

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

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Independently verified As published by Gould Academy — Gould Matriculations (Google Drive PDF linked from the College Counseling page's Downloads section) ↗. Found at: page 1 of the PDF, 'Five Year Matriculations'.

About this listing

Gould Academy is listed by PSS 2018 · NAIS + TABS. It has not reported to the federal Private School Survey, which is voluntary, so enrollment figures are not available here — many of the country's oldest independent schools are in the same position. The school's own site: www.gouldacademy.org ↗

Not enough enrollment history on file to chart a trend for this school yet.

Most similar nearby high schools

The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.

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Fryeburg Academy
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Calvary Christian Academy
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Private 28.4 85 -6.6%
Spurwink-Lewiston/Auburn
Lewiston
Private 36.8 21
Kents Hill School
Kents Hill
Private 39.1 194 -16.4%

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