Mt View High School

Set in Thorndike, Maine, Mt View High School is a small high school, part of RSU 03/MSAD 03. It instructs 271 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 40% below the state mean of about 448.

Within RSU 03/MSAD 03, which oversees 8 schools and 983 students, Mt View High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Mt View High School shows that nearly all students (93%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Mt View High School reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Waldo County) records that median household income runs about $72,782, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Mt View High School is one of 27 public schools in Waldo County (combined enrollment of about 3,843 students).

The closest other public school is Mt View Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Mt View High School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 29%: 384 students in 2018 compared to 271 in 2025.

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