Family, friends and fellow students will gather at Windham High School this week to remember a popular student killed Saturday in a snowmobile accident in northern Maine.

A wake will be held Friday from 6-9 p.m., at the school auditorium, to honor Kyle Rogers, 15, a Windham High sophomore who died when his snowmobile went off a trail near Portage and hit a tree.

The funeral will be held in the auditorium the next day at 10 a.m.

“He was a really good kid, a really neat kid,” said guidance counselor Stephanie Bubier, one of a handful of officials at the school during vacation week Monday in case students wanted to stop by for support. Well-liked among his classmates, Rogers and his girlfriend, Lindsay Webber, were voted Homecoming King and Queen for the sophomore class.

“He was very popular, very well-connected,” Bubier said.

Rogers was traveling Saturday afternoon with eight other snowmobiles, heading westbound on a portion ITS 90 just outside of Portage, a tiny hamlet around 25 miles west of Presque Isle.

Rogers was making a long, slight corner in his 2004 Arctic Cat 700 Fire Cat when it went off the trail and hit a tree at around 3:30 p.m., according to Lt. Doug Tibbetts of the Maine Warden Service.

He was transported to Aroostook Medical Center in Presque Isle, then by ambulance to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. He was pronounced dead there at 9:28 p.m.

None of the other snowmobilers saw the accident, Tibbetts said. Freezing rain, low visibility and speed may have been factors in the crash, he said. Rogers was wearing a helmet.

Bubier said Rogers, who was visiting his father and stepmother, regularly made the trip to Aroostook County to snowmobile, and he was known as a responsible rider.

“He was an avid, avid snowmobiler,” she said. “This was not some yahoo out there on a snowmobile.”

Though he was not involved in any school clubs or sports, Rogers loved being active in nature, and could often be found water skiing or snowmobiling, said Principal Deb McAfee.

“He was a real outdoors kids,” she said.

Five or six students stopped by the school Monday to talk to counselors, said Assistant Principal Mark Tinkham. Counselors, teachers and social workers will also be available next week when the students return from winter break. The school is an “extended family,” Tinkham said, and administrators and teachers want to give students every chance to process and express their grief.

Sometimes, Tinkham and Bubier said, that is easier for the students to do while at school.

“A lot of them will open up to teachers because they feel comfortable to them in this safe place,” said Bubier.