{"ap_courses":6,"ap_rigor_national_percentile":54.0,"at_a_glance":["Bessemer City High is a public high school in Bessemer City, NC, enrolling 590 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","Enrollment is up 33% from 2021 to 2024.","It offers 6 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 54% of U.S. high schools, and has a dual-enrollment program (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).","88 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 56% of U.S. high schools.","Its federal four-year graduation rate was about 82% in the latest EDFacts release.","It has about 284 students per school counselor.","71% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.","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":71.0,"city":"Bessemer City","dual_enrollment":true,"enrollment":{"grades_9_12":590,"year":2024},"enrollment_change_pct":33.3,"enrollment_change_span":[2021,2024],"faq":[{"a":"Bessemer City High offers 6 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 54% of U.S. high schools, and has a dual-enrollment program (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).","q":"How many AP courses does Bessemer City High offer?"},{"a":"Bessemer City High's federal four-year graduation rate was about 82% in the latest EDFacts release.","q":"What is Bessemer City High's graduation rate?"},{"a":"Bessemer City High is a public high school in Bessemer City, NC, enrolling 590 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","q":"How many students attend Bessemer City High?"}],"federal_grad_rate_pct":82.0,"feeder_standing":null,"name":"Bessemer City High","nces_id":"370162000668","ok":true,"published_college_list":null,"sat_act_national_percentile":56.5,"sat_act_takers":88,"school_facts":[],"school_type":"Public","slug":"bessemer-city-high","state":"NC","state_measures":{},"students_per_counselor":284,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/bessemer-city-high"}