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Whaling City Junior/Senior High School, New Bedford, MA

Whaling City Junior/Senior High School is a public high school in New Bedford, part of New Bedford School District. It enrolled 200 students in 2024-25, with 11.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
200
Teachers (FTE)
17.0
Students per teacher
11.8
Grades
7 to 12

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 11.8. The Massachusetts average across schools is 12.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school11.8
District11.8
Massachusetts12.0
United States15.3

School details

Address
455 County Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
Phone
(508)997-4511
District
New Bedford School District
County
Bristol County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Midsize
NCES school ID
250843002681
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Direct certification
176Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

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.

Related schools

Other high schools in New Bedford School District

High schools elsewhere in New Bedford

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

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.