Mount Baker Senior High

Located at 4936 DEMING RD, in DEMING, Washington, Mount Baker Senior High is a mid-tier senior high that serves 513 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Mount Baker School District.

Mount Baker School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 1,580 students. Mount Baker Senior High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mount Baker Senior High reports that White students make up the majority at 69%. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Mount Baker Senior High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 49% of students at Mount Baker Senior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mount Baker Senior High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.6%; this one comes in at 36.7%, -10.9 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, Whatcom County reports that median household income runs about $81,784, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Mount Baker Senior High is one of 78 public schools in Whatcom County (combined enrollment of about 27,779 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mount Baker Junior High, around 0.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mount Baker Senior High comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.0%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mount Baker Senior High has declined 3%, going from 528 students in 2018 to 513 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 75% to 69%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 today.

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