In 2010 the school had 1,153 students. 839 students living in the Bay View attendance zone went to other MPS schools, and that year 86 students at Bay View High lived in the school's attendance zone, making up 7.5% of the school's students. In the 2009-2010 school year the State of Wisconsin ranked it as among the lowest performing schools in Wisconsin, and area parents avoided the school due to substandard graduation rates and test scores. In 2012 Bay View was one of the high schools designated by MPS as a "metro school", meaning one of its lowest performing.