Nokomis Regional High School

Nokomis Regional High School is a moderately sized high school in Newport, Maine, run under RSU 19. The school hosts 610 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 36% bigger than the typical public school in Maine, which averages around 448 students.

RSU 19 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,883 students; Nokomis Regional High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Nokomis Regional High School reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Penobscot County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Nokomis Regional High School has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Penobscot County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,356 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Penobscot County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,646 students), Nokomis Regional High School is one campus in the mix.

Sebasticook Valley Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Nokomis Regional High School's enrollment has ticked up 4% since 2018, when it stood at 587 (now 610).

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