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Oxford Hills Comprehensive H S
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MEA 2024-25 . % At or Above State ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MEA, Maine's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maine schools, those numbers are about 64 and 51.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Oxford Hills Comprehensive H S
Located at 256 Main Street, in Paris, Maine, Oxford Hills Comprehensive H S is a high-enrollment 9-12 campus that serves 1,010 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by RSU 17/MSAD 17. By comparison, Maine's public schools average about 448 students each, so Oxford Hills Comprehensive H S sits 125% larger than that benchmark.
Oxford Hills Comprehensive H S is one of 11 schools operated by RSU 17/MSAD 17, a district that hosts 3,197 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Oxford Hills Comprehensive H S records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. Compared to Oxford County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Oxford Hills Comprehensive H S higher than the state norm the norm. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Oxford County indicate median household earnings sit near $60,173, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Oxford County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,913 students), Oxford Hills Comprehensive H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Guy E Rowe School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Oxford Hills Comprehensive H S.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Five-year trend. Oxford Hills Comprehensive H S's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 1,033 (now 1,010). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.
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- Oxford Hills Middle School0.9 mi · 479
- Paris Elementary School2.6 mi · 424
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- Agnes Gray School8.2 mi · 122
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