Bellingham School District

Washington · 24 schools · 11,601 students

20.8%
Chronic Absence %
→
9.1%
Peer Benchmark
Rank #369
Priority: 21/100
244,565
Recoverable Days
11.7 pts
Gap to Peers
24.6pp
Subgroup Disparity
24
Schools

Explanation

This school's chronic absenteeism rate is 20.8%, but peers in similar contexts achieve 9.1%. Closing this 11.7% gap across 11,601 students would recover approximately 244,565 attendance days per year.

Subgroup disparity score of 24.6% indicates meaningful differences in chronic absenteeism across student demographics.

Priority Score Breakdown

Trend Over Time

Schools in this District

Rank School Enrollment CA Rate Recoverable Days
966 Bellingham High School 1,218 46.7% 82,713
2665 Sehome High School 1,163 32.7% 49,583
4880 Whatcom Middle School 600 39.5% 35,980
9163 Cordata Elementary School 393 44.8% 24,306
12786 Alderwood Elementary School 291 46.4% 18,964
15965 Silver Beach Elementary School 349 32.1% 15,673
17566 Sunnyland Elementary School 316 31.3% 14,283
18699 Options High School 188 55.9% 13,375
18892 Birchwood Elementary School 369 30.4% 13,237
22713 Parkview Elementary School 399 21.1% 10,655
29503 Northern Heights Elementary Schl 410 15.9% 7,111
34890 Geneva Elementary School 432 12.7% 4,933
47287 Columbia Elementary School 231 9.1% 1,195
89216 Carl Cozier Elementary School 321 5.9% 0
89217 Fairhaven Middle School 597 2.2% 0
89218 Happy Valley Elementary School 456 3.5% 0
89219 Lowell Elementary School 303 3.3% 0
89220 Roosevelt Elementary School 374 7.0% 0
89221 Shuksan Middle School 579 7.8% 0
89222 Kulshan Middle School 623 1.8% 0
89223 Squalicum High School 1,280 6.1% 0
89224 Wade King Elementary School 346 1.2% 0