The former Homestead High School teacher arrested twice for having sexual relationships with three students will spend the next four years and four months in state prison, a Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge ruled June 8.

Brett Michael Bartlett, 26, was arrested at the high school first in February for having unlawful sex with two students, a 16-year-old and a 15-year-old.

Both teens were students in his choral class.

He was arrested a second time a month later when investigators uncovered new information about a third victim, another 16-year-old student.

Bartlett pleaded guilty in March to three felony counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with the underage girls, one felony count of oral copulation with a minor and one misdemeanor count of possession of child pornography.

Police had obtained a film allegedly showing Bartlett having sex with one of the victims. He faced up to six years in jail or probation.

Despite support from several parents who spoke on Bartlett’s behalf, the judge chose to sentence Bartlett to prison because of the number of victims, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

Bartlett taught band and choir at the school in Cupertino for the past three years. Homestead High School serves students in south Los Altos.

Bartlett must register as a sex offender for life.

This isn’t the first Homestead teacher convicted of having sexual relationships with students. In 1999, Homestead football coach Jeff Lamson was sentenced to jail for three years and three months after admitting to having sexual relationships with a 16-year-old student and a 14-year-old student.