Capital Preparatory Harbor School

As a medium-sized multi-level school in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Capital Preparatory Harbor School serves 775 students from grades K through 12, one of the schools within Capital Preparatory Harbor School District.

Capital Preparatory Harbor School is a school of Capital Preparatory Harbor School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Capital Preparatory Harbor School logs that 65% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 34% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the resource side, On paper, Capital Preparatory Harbor School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Capital Preparatory Harbor School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region put median household income runs about $89,667, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Greater Bridgeport Planning Region's 91 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,880 students), Capital Preparatory Harbor School is one campus in the mix.

Roosevelt School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Capital Preparatory Harbor School.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. Capital Preparatory Harbor School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 77%: 439 students in 2018 compared to 775 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 20% to 34%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.