Billings Senior High School

Overview

Billings Senior High School, opened in 1940, is a comprehensive public high school in Billings, part of the Billings Public Schools District -- one of three traditional high schools in Montana's largest city.

Academics

No independently verified Montana state assessment data (via the Montana GEMS system) was located for this profile; check the Montana Office of Public Instruction's site directly for current school-level results.

Neighborhood

The school sits centrally in Billings, in Yellowstone County -- Montana's largest city and its most populous county.

Crime & safety

This is one of the sharper contradictions found in this directory: multiple sources describe Billings' citywide crime rate as substantially elevated (60-88% above national and state averages by several measures, ranked among the highest crime rates in Montana and one of the highest nationally for violent crime by one index), while a separate source gives the city an overall B+ grade and reports that 100% of its analyzed neighborhoods graded A or B, calling it "Very Safe." Multiple sources do agree on one point: crime has been trending down recently (a 27% year-over-year drop per one source, 10% per another).

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score, and this level of direct disagreement is exactly the situation our methodology is built to handle by withholding a number rather than manufacturing one. See our ratings methodology.

Sources