Bear Path School

Bear Path School, a medium-sized K-5 school in Hamden, Connecticut, run under Hamden School District, caters to 385 students, covering grades K through 6.

Bear Path School is one of 10 schools operated by Hamden School District, a district that educates 5,012 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bear Path School lists that the largest single group is White at 39%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 22% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of South Central Connecticut Planning Region's rate of about 51%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (South Central Connecticut Planning Region) logs that median household earnings sit near $88,197, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, South Central Connecticut Planning Region runs 152 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,909 students), of which Bear Path School is one.

Shepherd Glen School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Bear Path School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Bear Path School's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 421 (now 385). Over the same period, the White share fell from 57% to 39%.

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