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High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Bellingham High School, Bellingham, WA

Bellingham High School is a public high school in Bellingham, part of Bellingham School District. It enrolled 1,165 students in 2024-25, with 21.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
1,165
Teachers (FTE)
54.0
Students per teacher
21.6
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 4.2 higher than the district figure of 17.4. The Washington average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school21.6
District17.4
Washington18.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
2020 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225
County
Whatcom County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
530042000099
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.
Free lunch
331
Reduced-price lunch
82
Free or reduced-price lunch
41335.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification
297Students 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 Bellingham School District

High schools elsewhere in Bellingham

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.