Bainbridge Island School District

Enrollment, capacity and how full our schools are

How many students we enroll, how many our buildings are built to hold, and how that has changed since 2014–15.

Part one

What we mean by occupancy

Occupancy is the number of students enrolled in our schools (October headcount) compared with the number of students our buildings are built to hold.
Under state requirements, occupancy must be based on enrolled headcount. Daily attendance may not be used in this calculation.

Occupancy by school

Every school is between 73% and 91% full. The lighter segment at Blakely and x̌alilc adds Pre-K students.

Capacity comes from the 2023 Study & Survey, except Commodore Options, where the study did not set one; 365 is the district’s maximum capacity for that building.

Occupancy, year by year

Occupancy held between 95% and 97% from 2014–15 through 2019–20. It has gone down each year since, to 81% today, as enrollment fell from 3,894 students at its peak to 3,257.

Portables: at various times over the years, the district has added portables at specific schools when enrollment went over that building’s capacity.

Every year is divided by today’s capacity of 4,024, so the bars show how enrollment changed against the buildings we have now. Some buildings were smaller or different in earlier years. 2014–15 through 2025–26 come from district grade-level enrollment data; 2026–27 is the current count.

Part two

For K–6, capacity comes down to classrooms

Every elementary class needs its own homeroom. Today our K–6 buildings hold 76 classes in 91 homeroom classrooms, so 15 are empty and 84% are in use.

What counts as a classroom: only rooms that can hold a homeroom class of students. Rooms not included: specialist rooms (art, gym, music), special education classrooms, Pre-K classrooms, and Tier 2 and 3 intervention classrooms.