High · Maryland
Walt Whitman High
Walt Whitman High, a public high school in Bethesda, Maryland: grades 9–12, 2,056 students, 17.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Montgomery County Public Schools.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 2,056
- Teachers (FTE)
- 115.2
- Students per teacher
- 17.8
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 78% of high schools in Maryland
Median 16.2 · 223 schools compared
More students per teacher than 73% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 88% of high schools in Maryland
Median 1,180 · 232 schools compared
Larger than 93% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Small city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Montgomery County Public Schools.
Location
- Address
- 7100 Whittier Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20817
- Phone
- (240)740-4800
- City or town
- Bethesda
- County
- Montgomery County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9–12 | 2,377 | 16.7 | |
| 9–12 | 2,181 | 17.8 | |
| 9–12 | 3,016 | 18.1 | |
| 9–12 | 1,855 | 13.6 | |
| 9–12 | 1,654 | 14.2 | |
Rock Terrace SchoolSpecial educationFree meals for all | 6–12 | 77 | 3.6 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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