New Bedford High
New Bedford, MA · High School · Grades 9-12
New Bedford High is a high school in New Bedford, MA with 2,898 students enrolled and a 41% proficiency rate. Part of New Bedford. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
New Bedford High is a high school located in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The school serves 2,898 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.3:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 41% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 78% graduation rate.
New Bedford High is part of the New Bedford in Massachusetts.
How This School Compares
New Bedford High has 2,898 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in New Bedford (501 students). Its 41% proficiency rate is 10 percentage points below the district average of 51%. Compared to the Massachusetts state average of 50%, the school performs 9 points lower. With a 14.3:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
New Bedford High has 2,898 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.3:1.
According to EDFacts data, 41% of students at New Bedford High meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
New Bedford High has a 78% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
New Bedford High is part of the New Bedford in New Bedford, Massachusetts. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.