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Enrollment
1,208
High
DISTRICT 645 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530033000043
Bainbridge High School
9330 NE High School RD, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 · (206) 842-2634 · Kitsap County
GRADES 09–12HIGH22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,208 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Washington public high schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public high schools
Student : Teacher
22.6:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.5:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
130 students
DISTRICT 14% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 319 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 265 | 22% |
| Grade 11 | 294 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 330 | 27% |
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
92.8%
WA avg 58.4% . +87.9pp since 2014
Math
75.0%
WA avg 51.2% . +70.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 88 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 71 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 92.8% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 90.6% | 73.6% |
| 2022-23 | 92.1% | 76.1% |
| 2021-22 | 88.7% | 66.1% |
| 2018-19 | 94.1% | 76.9% |
| 2017-18 | 89.2% | 74.3% |
| 2016-17 | 48.7% | 3.0% |
| 2015-16 | 20.6% | N/A |
| 2014-15 | 4.9% | 4.3% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
78.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bainbridge High School
Bainbridge High School's state test result (78.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bainbridge High School this school | 1,208 | 10.8% | 78.8% |
| Ballard High School SEATTLE | 1,697 | 12.7% | 60.3% |
| Gig Harbor High Gig Harbor | 1,375 | 15.0% | 54.1% |
| Mount Si High School SNOQUALMIE | 2,152 | 13.2% | 66.7% |
| Cedarcrest High School Duvall | 889 | 19.5% | 61.3% |
| West Seattle High School SEATTLE | 1,479 | 18.4% | 59.1% |
Matched among Washington high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bainbridge High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Kitsap County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.8% | #1 of 271 | #1 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #2 of 321 ▲ 1 | #1 of 8 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 92.8% | #1 of 327 ▲ 2 | #1 of 8 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.5pp | #36 of 259 | #3 of 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,208 | #128 of 570 | #4 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.6:1 | #243 of 311 | #6 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.2% | #251 of 316 | #9 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.8% | #378 of 386 | #9 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.3% | #63 of 164 | #3 of 6 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,208
-100 (-8%) vs 2020
+47% since 1990-91, when it was 821
Student : Teacher
22.6:1
was 20.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,208 | 53.4 | 22.6:1 | 11% (130) |
| 2023-24 | 1,181 | 56 | 21.1:1 | 10% (121) |
| 2022-23 | 1,232 | 60.5 | 20.4:1 | 11% (130) |
| 2020-21 | 1,308 | 64 | 20.4:1 | 8% (101) |
| 2017-18 | 1,346 | 62.1 | 21.7:1 | 7% (90) |
| 2015-16 | 1,254 | 61 | 20.6:1 | 7% (85) |
| 2010-11 | 1,358 | 65 | 20.9:1 | 6% (86) |
| 2000-01 | 1,298 | 57 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 821 | 37 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bainbridge High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (1,346 to 1,208); teachers down 14% (62.1 to 53.4).
About Bainbridge High School
Bainbridge High School is a large high school found in Bainbridge Island, Washington. It reported 1,208 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. By comparison, high schools in Washington enroll about 573 students on average.
Bainbridge Island School District enrolls 3,514 students, and its 10 schools include Bainbridge High School.
More than half of the students at Bainbridge High School are White (75%). The remaining shares are 9% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, and 4% Asian. That is in line with Kitsap County, where about 75% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Bainbridge High School scores 40%.
A staff of 53.4 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 22.6:1. The gap from the 21.6:1 average for high schools in Washington is 1.1 students per teacher. By family income, 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Kitsap County, the average eligibility rate is 41%.
On the allk12 Grade, Bainbridge High School lands at A+, ahead of 99% of Washington public high schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Bainbridge High School is 5.8 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 78.8% actual, 73.0% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Washington.
Kitsap County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $104,158, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 77 public schools in the county, enrolling about 34,233, Bainbridge High School among them.
Bainbridge Special Education Services sits less than a tenth of a mile from Bainbridge High School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, Bainbridge High School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Mid-size.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 1,308 to 1,208, an 8% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 20.4:1 to 22.6:1.
The Bainbridge High School discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. You can also rate the school on this page.
Kitsap County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
277,881
Census ACS
Median income
$104,158
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
34,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bainbridge Island School District
- Woodward Middle SchoolMiddle · 479 students
- Sonoji Sakai IntermediateMiddle · 456 students
- Capt Johnston Blakely Elem SchElementary · 356 students
- Halilts Elementary SchoolElementary · 353 students
- Ordway ElementaryElementary · 320 students
- Odyssey Multiage ProgramElementary · 177 students
Other schools in Bainbridge Island
- Woodward Middle SchoolMiddle · 479 students
- Sonoji Sakai IntermediateMiddle · 456 students
- Capt Johnston Blakely Elem SchElementary · 356 students
- Halilts Elementary SchoolElementary · 353 students
- Ordway ElementaryElementary · 320 students
- Odyssey Multiage ProgramElementary · 177 students
Other Bainbridge High schools
One other US public school is named Bainbridge High. Bainbridge High School is the largest of the 2.
- Bainbridge High SchoolBainbridge, GA · 1,192 students
Nearby schools
- Bainbridge Special Education Services0.1 mi · 27
- Odyssey Multiage Program0.1 mi · 177
- Eagle Harbor High School0.1 mi · 81
- Mosaic Home Education Partnership0.1 mi · 57
- Ordway Elementary0.1 mi · 320
- Woodward Middle School0.6 mi · 479
Frequently asked questions
About Bainbridge High SchoolHow large is Bainbridge High School?
Bainbridge High School enrolls approximately 1,208 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Bainbridge High School serve?
Bainbridge High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bainbridge High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bainbridge High School is approximately 22.6:1 (53 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Bainbridge High School?
Student demographics at Bainbridge High School are roughly 75% White, 9% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Bainbridge High School?
Bainbridge High School is overseen by Bainbridge Island School District in Kitsap County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.