York High School

As a moderately sized secondary school in York, Maine, York High School teaches 498 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within York Public Schools.

York Public Schools comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,538 students; York High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, York High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Beyond that, the school lists 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against York County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for York County indicate median household earnings sit near $88,333, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, York County runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,364 students), of which York High School is one.

Coastal Ridge Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around York High School.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. York High School's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 557 (now 498).

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.