Bridgeport Public Schools

Bridgeport Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.

The city's public school system has 30 elementary schools, three comprehensive high schools, two alternative programs and an interdistrict vocational aquaculture school. The system has about 23,000 students, making the Bridgeport Public Schools the second largest school system in Connecticut. The school system employs a professional staff of more than 1,700.

The city has started a large school renovation and construction program, with plans for new schools and modernization of existing buildings.

Public high schools

* Bassick High School, home to the Business Magnet
* Central High School established in 1876, home to Central Magnet, largest of the high schools
* Warren Harding High School which is home to the International Baccalaureate Program (IBO) as well as the Health Magnet Program in association with nearby Bridgeport Hospital plus St. Vincent’s Medical Center on the north side of Bridgeport and the Bridgeport Manor.

*Bridgeport Regional Vocational Aquaculture School (BRVAS) is located near historic Captain's Cove and is open to students from surrounding towns. It is one of the first schools in the country specializing in marine and aquaculture curriculum.
*Bullard Havens Technical High School is a vocational high school. (State School)

Elementary Schools

*Barnum School opened in 1892 located on Noble Avenue named after Phineas Taylor Barnum
*Barnum Annex located on East Washington Avenue. Originally Holy Rosary, closed as Barnum Annex at the end of the 2005-2006 School Year. Now serves as the building for Park City Academy
*Beardsley School built in 1903 on Huntington Road originally named the Huntington Road School named after James Beardsley who donated abundance of land to the city of Bridgeport
*Blackham School built in 1964, opening on February 1, 1965 on Thorme Street named after Florence E. Blackham who graduated from Bridgeport High School in 1887 & Bridgeport City Normal School in 1889 then taught a Staples School from 1889 to 1890, Grand Street School in 1890, City Normal School from 1890 to 1892, Franklin School from 1892 to 1903, & Courtland Street School from 1903 to 1911 as well as being a principal at Jefferson School & Kossuth Street School in 1911, then named principal of Hall School in September 1915 for 23 years
*Black Rock School built in 1841 on Brewster Street
*Bryant School constructed in 1912 on Maplewood Avenue named after William Cullen Bryant who was a famous American poet and an influential newspaper editor
* [http://www.bridgeportbrightfutures.org/newschooldetail.asp?PropertyID=1 Cesar A. Batalla School] , constructed in 2006, located on Howard Avenue.
*Columbus School erected in October of 1966 on George Street
*Cross School constructed in May 1959 on Reservoir Avenue named for Governor Wilber Lucius Cross from 1931 to 1939 the 86th governor of Connecticut
*Curiale School located on Laurel Avenue
*Dunbar School opened in January 1983 on Union Avenue replacing Abraham Lincoln School which operated from 1896 to 1969 named after Paul Lawrence Dunbar who was an Afro-American novelist and poet
*Edison School located on Boston Terrace
*Garfield School located on Stillman Street
*Hall School founded in 1919 on Clermont Avenue named in honor of Lyman Hall who was an American Revolutionary War statesman
*Hallen School constructed in 1922 on Omega Avenue named after a former Board of Education member & Judge of Probate Edward F. Hallen
*High Horizons Magnet School located on Palisade Avenue
*Hooker School opened in September 1942 on Roger Williams Road named after Thomas Hooker
*Howe School located on Clinton Avenue named after Elias Howe
*Jettie S. Tisdale Elementary School, under construction
*Longfellow School erected on Ocean Terrace
*Howe located on Clinton Avenue named after Elias Howe (Now Closed, kids moved to Cesar Batalla)
*Luis Muñoz Marín School opened in January 1992 on Helen Street named after Luis Muñoz Marín who was elected the first governor of Puerto Rico, while his father Luis Muñoz Rivera was the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico
*Madison School originally built in 1916 named after the fourth president under the United States Declaration of Independence, James Madison
*Classical Studies Academy A.K.A. Maplewood School located on Linwood Avenue
*Maplewood Annex School is located on Wells Avenue
*McKinley School is located on Logan Street
*Multi-Cultural Magnet School opened in September of 1980 on Palisade Avenue
*Newfield School opened on November 6, 1906 on Newfield Avenue. Closed at the end of the 2005 - 2006 school year. District turned the building over to the city in Sept. 2006. Now is the Bridgeport Police Department Training Academy @ Newfield
*North End Elementary under construction.
*Park City Magnet School originally William Samuel Johnson Elementary School which was being built in 1954 & opened in 1955, then Park City Magnet- North Campus School opened in 1979 on Chopsey Hill Road
*Read School was constructed about 1915 on a North Avenue located then was torn down to allow for Route 8/25 connector in 1968, new location is on Ezra Street named after David F. Read who served from 1890 to 1910 for the Bridgeport Board of Education
*Roosevelt School is located on Park Avenue
*Skane Center which is erected upon Madison Avenue
*Waltersville School is located on Gilmore Street
*Waltersville Annex School is located on Polaski Street
*Webster School was built in 1886 on North Avenue originally dubbed the Oak Street School, then in the fall of 1916 became Webster School honoring Noah Webster who was a well-noted Connecticut resident and educator
*Winthrop School opened in 1955 on Eckart Street named after John Winthrop, Jr. who once was a colonial governor of Connecticut, while his father John Winthrop, Sr. served as colonial governor of Massachusetts
*Whittier School, closed now remains as an annex to buildings that have overflow kids, "e.g." Howe, Longefellow
*Bridgeport Learning Center (Sheridan) is located on Tesiny Avenue, it is also known as the Bridgeport Learning Center at Sheridan

District Reference Group

Bridgeport is one of the seven public school systems in District Reference Group I, a classification made by the state Department of Education for the purpose of comparison with the achievement levels of similar schools and districts. District reference groups are defined as "districts whose students' families are similar in eduation, income, occupation and need, and that have roughly similar enrollment". [http://www.csde.state.ct.us/public/der/ssp/SCH0506/sr137.pdf] state "Strategic School Profile 2005-2006" for Wilton High School, accessed March 25, 2007] The other six school districts in the group are Hartford, New Britain, New Haven, New London, Waterbury and Windham. [ [http://discovery.wcgmf.org/communities_bydrg.html] Web page titled "Find a Community: By Educational Reference Group (DRG)" at the "Discovery 2007 / An initiative of the William Caspar Graustein Fund" Web site, accessed March 25, 2007]

ee also

* Education in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Notes

External links

* [http://www.bridgeportedu.com/ Bridgeport Public Schools]
* [http://www.csde.state.ct.us/public/der/ssp/dist0506/dist008.pdf State "Strategic School Profile, Bridgeport School District 2005-2006" report]
* [http://www.greatschools.net/schools.page?district=35&state=CT Bridgeport School District main Web page at Great Schools Web site]