High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Belfast Area High School, Belfast, ME

CEP schoolBelfast Area High School is a public high school in Belfast, part of RSU 71. It enrolled 476 students in 2024-25, with 11.3 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 476
Teachers (FTE): 42.0
Students per teacher: 11.3
Grades: 9 to 12

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 11.0. The Maine average across schools is 11.5. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school11.3

District11.0

Maine11.5

United States15.3

School details

Address: 25 Lions Way, Belfast, ME 04915
Phone: (207)338-1790
District: RSU 71
County: Waldo County
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Town: Distant
NCES school ID: 231482200440

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 225
Reduced-price lunch: 16
Free or reduced-price lunch: 24150.6% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 154Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.