Walt Whitman High
Bethesda, MD · High School · Grades 9-12
Walt Whitman High is a high school in Bethesda, MD with 2,018 students enrolled and a 63% proficiency rate. Part of Montgomery County Public Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Walt Whitman High is a high school located in Bethesda, Maryland. The school serves 2,018 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.4:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 63% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 89% graduation rate.
6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Walt Whitman High is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland.
How This School Compares
Walt Whitman High has 2,018 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Montgomery County Public Schools (772 students). Its 63% proficiency rate is 11 percentage points above the district average of 52%. Compared to the Maryland state average of 49%, the school performs 14 points higher.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Walt Whitman High has 2,018 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.4:1.
According to EDFacts data, 63% of students at Walt Whitman High meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Walt Whitman High has a 89% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Walt Whitman High is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools in Bethesda, Maryland. 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.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
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.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.