George W. Stearns High School (commonly Stearns High School or SHS) is a coeducational public secondary school in Millinocket, Maine, United States, and is part of the Millinocket School Department. It serves students in grades 6 - 12. The school is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.HistoryIn the 1970s the school had about 700 students.As of the 2007-08 school year, the school had an enrollment of 326 students and had 27.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 11.7.International student program and Global Times controversyBy 2010 the enrollment had declined to about 200, and the school began experiencing budget shortfalls, prompting the school district administration to attempt to recruit international students. The school planned to have 25, and later, 60 international students. Kenneth Smith, the superintendent, planned the international student recruitment. The school district planned to charge $24,000 per student per year. It planned to use all of the Katahdin Inn as a dormitory for the students.In June 2011 Patrick Mattimore, an adjunct instructor at Tsinghua/Temple Law School, wrote a negative editorial in the Global Times about the school. Mattimore stated that a New York Times article provided the background information and that the editors of the Global Times had removed his credits to the NYT; Mattimore stated in a guest column for the Bangor Daily News "I wish the background had been credited." In response to his critics, Mattimore wrote in the column that the article tone was "a little more “Mattimore versus Millinocket” than I would have liked" because some of his material about unethical recruiters for U.S. universities and high schools had been removed, and Mattimore stated that he planned to visit Millinocket to clarify the situation.