Bluffton High School

Bluffton High School is a tight-knit senior high in Bluffton, Indiana, part of MSD Bluffton-Harrison. The school teaches 507 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Bluffton High School sits 38% below that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in MSD Bluffton-Harrison (1,813 students total), Bluffton High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bluffton High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%); the rest comes out to 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Bluffton High School reports 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Zooming out to the county, Wells County reports that median household earnings sit near $71,957, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Wells County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,106 students), of which Bluffton High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bluffton-Harrison Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Bluffton High School.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Bluffton High School's enrollment has rose 15% since 2018, when it stood at 442 (now 507).

On this page, members of the Bluffton High School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.