{"ap_courses":23,"ap_rigor_national_percentile":96.3,"at_a_glance":["Bellingham High School is a public high school in Bellingham, WA, enrolling 1,165 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","Enrollment is down 6% from 2021 to 2024.","It offers 23 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 96% of U.S. high schools, and has a dual-enrollment program (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).","42 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 39% of U.S. high schools.","It has about 245 students per school counselor.","32% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.","Bellingham High School had 40% of its class of 2026, the seniors who graduated in June 2026, attending four-year colleges (Bellingham High School school profile).","Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named."],"caveats":["UC admits and applications are counted at each campus: a student admitted to three UCs counts three times. The UC Reach Score is those admits divided by the senior class, times 100, so a strong school scores above 100.","A published college list is the school's own document, copied as printed; counts are the school's, never ours, and an unnumbered list carries no counts.","Enrollment is NCES CCD for national pages and CDE for California pages; graduation and readiness measures are the state's or EDFacts' own definitions, named in each sentence.","Every figure here is also rendered on the HTML page it describes."],"chronic_absenteeism_pct":31.7,"city":"Bellingham","dual_enrollment":true,"enrollment":{"grades_9_12":1165,"year":2024},"enrollment_change_pct":-5.5,"enrollment_change_span":[2021,2024],"faq":[{"a":"Bellingham High School offers 23 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 96% of U.S. high schools, and has a dual-enrollment program (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).","q":"How many AP courses does Bellingham High School offer?"},{"a":"Bellingham High School is a public high school in Bellingham, WA, enrolling 1,165 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","q":"How many students attend Bellingham High School?"}],"federal_grad_rate_pct":null,"feeder_standing":null,"name":"Bellingham High School","nces_id":"530042000099","ok":true,"published_college_list":null,"sat_act_national_percentile":38.8,"sat_act_takers":42,"school_facts":[{"class_year":2026,"kind":"college_bound","method":"sweep:judged","quote":"Attending 4-year college: 40 %","retrieved":"2026-10-23","source_name":"Bellingham High School school profile","source_url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1757996509/bellinghamschoolsorg/rlajdvjcurn7wkyq4h1c/2025-2026BHSSchoolProfile.pdf","text":"Bellingham High School had 40% of its class of 2026, the seniors who graduated in June 2026, attending four-year colleges (Bellingham High School school profile).","where":"page 2"}],"school_type":"Public","slug":"bellingham-high-school-wa","state":"WA","state_measures":{},"students_per_counselor":245,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/bellingham-high-school-wa"}