Public school / High
Bay City Western High School
Auburn, Michigan
- NCES ID
- 260426004113
- District
- Bay City School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Bay City Western High School is a public high school in Auburn, Michigan, run by Bay City School District. It enrols 1,102 students — the 7019th largest of 3,559 public schools in Michigan.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,102
Teachers
48.0
Students per teacher
23.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
29.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Bay City School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Bay City Western High School1,102 students
- 2Bay City Central High School1,033 students
- 3Western Middle School726 students
- 4Handy Middle School685 students
- 5Kolb Elementary School477 students
- 6Auburn Elementary School474 students
- 7Hampton Elementary School405 students
- 8Washington Elementary School395 students
- Enrollment+186.2%
- Teachers+118.2%
- Students per teacher+35.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−51.1%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory