Telstar High School

Telstar High School is a very small high school with an address in Bethel, Maine. Total enrollment is 179 students, and the grades served are 9 through 12. High schools in Maine have about 448 students on average; enrollment here is 60% lower.

Telstar High School sits within RSU 44/MSAD 44, which has 4 schools and 664 students.

Telstar High School is 92% White by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 6% multiracial. That is in line with Oxford County, where about 93% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Telstar High School scores 16%.

Telstar High School has 15.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 11.3:1. The average ratio among high schools in Maine is similar, at 11.9:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 57% at Telstar High School.

Census data for Oxford County show the median household earns about $60,173 a year, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. There are 33 public schools in the county, enrolling about 7,913, Telstar High School among them.

A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Telstar Middle School, is the closest to Telstar High School. Telstar High School has 2 other public schools within five miles.

Telstar High School is in rural territory far from an urban area, a location NCES labels Rural: Remote.

The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 3% decline, from 185 to 179. The ratio was 12.3:1 in 2020-21 and 11.3:1 in 2024-25.

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