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Whaling City Junior/Senior High School

New Bedford, Massachusetts · Public High School · New Bedford · Open

Key statistics

200
Students enrolled
17
Classroom teachers (FTE)
11.5:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Grade 7 12
  • Grade 8 9
  • Grade 9 20
  • Grade 10 43
  • Grade 11 48
  • Grade 12 68

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 51%
  • White 24%
  • Black or African American 16%
  • Two or more races 10%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Spending

$35,467 spent per student in this school on day-to-day operations Median of the district's 25 schools: $21,360 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $14,022
  • Support services $18,637
  • Food service and other $1,119
  • Shared district costs (not itemized) $1,689

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School-Level Finance Survey, school year 2022-23 (provisional). This is the spending the district assigned to this school, per its enrollment that year (135 students). Costs the district did not assign to any school are left out, so it is usually lower than the district's own per-student figure, and states assign costs differently: compare it with other schools in the same district, not across states. It leaves out construction, equipment and debt.

School details

Grades served

07–12

School level

High

School type

Regular

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: Midsize

Title I

Title I schoolwide school (2021-22)

Address

455 County Street, New Bedford MA 02740

School district

New Bedford

County

Bristol County

Website

NCES School ID

250843002681

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School District

Part of

New Bedford

24 public schools · 12,505 students

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