High · Massachusetts
Whaling City Junior/Senior High School
Whaling City Junior/Senior High School, a public high school in New Bedford, Massachusetts: grades 7–12, 200 students, 11.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of New Bedford.
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
- 200
- Teachers (FTE)
- 17.4
- Students per teacher
- 11.5
- Grades
- 7–12
- High
More students per teacher than 56% of high schools in Massachusetts
Median 11.2 · 380 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 71% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 85% of high schools in Massachusetts
Median 660 · 383 schools compared
Smaller than 69% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 7–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Midsize suburb
- Run by
- New Bedford
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with New Bedford.
Location
- Address
- 455 County Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
- Phone
- (508)997-4511
- City or town
- New Bedford
- County
- Bristol 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Trinity Day AcademyFree meals for all | 6–12 | 93 | 6.5 |
New Bedford HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,878 | 13.5 |
Fairhaven HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 568 | 11.4 |
Global Learning Charter Public SchoolCharterFree meals for all | 5–12 | 508 | 10.5 |
Dartmouth HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 902 | 11.9 |
Gr New Bedford Vocational TechnicalCareer and technicalFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,151 | 11.3 |
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).
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