The town also successfully lobbied the State Legislature for the creation of a “magnet school” in Limestone. The Maine School for Science and Mathematics, the first such school in New England and only the eleventh of its kind in the nation, opened in 1995. The purpose of the school is to attract the best and brightest students and provide them with an academically rigorous environment where they can flourish.

The challenging curriculum of math, science and the humanities is having the effect of training the future employees in the local economy, such as those at Limestone’s federally-funded Defense Financing and Accounting Service Center (or DFAS) and at Telford Aviation.  DFAS Limestone has recently expanded, partly in recognition of the high caliber of the local workforce. Over 70% of the workforce at DFAS Limestone was hired from the surrounding area. Telford Aviation, meanwhile, moved into one the B-52 hangars left behind after Loring AFB's closure and is working on a prototype unmanned blimp that can be flown remotely using a laptop computer.