Williston High School
Williston, ND · High School · Grades 9-12
Williston High School is a high school in Williston, ND with 1,363 students enrolled and a 70% proficiency rate. Part of Williston Basin 7. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
About This School
Williston High School is a high school located in Williston, North Dakota. The school serves 1,363 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.7:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 70% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 80% graduation rate.
20% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Williston High School is part of the Williston Basin 7 in North Dakota.
How This School Compares
Williston High School has 1,363 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Williston Basin 7 (407 students). Its 70% proficiency rate is 9 percentage points above the district average of 61%. Compared to the North Dakota state average of 56%, the school performs 14 points higher. With a 14.7:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Williston High School has 1,363 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.7:1.
According to EDFacts data, 70% of students at Williston High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Williston High School has a 80% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Williston High School is part of the Williston Basin 7 in Williston, North Dakota. 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.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
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.