Central High School

Central High School is a large high school located in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Enrollment stands at 1,803 students, covering grades 9 through 12. It has 129% more students than the average for high schools in Connecticut (about 788).

Across its 36 schools, Bridgeport School District enrolls 19,802 students. Central High School is one of those schools.

More than half of the students at Central High School are Hispanic (57%). The remaining shares are 29% Black, 9% White, and 3% Asian. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Greater Bridgeport Planning Region's population at about 27%. The diversity index for Central High School is 58%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

A staff of 97 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 18.6:1. The gap from the 12.3:1 average for high schools in Connecticut is 6.3 students per teacher. By family income, 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 54% average for public schools in Greater Bridgeport Planning Region is 27 points lower.

Looking at the county, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, the median household earns about $89,667 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Counting Central High School, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region has 91 public schools.

Geraldine Johnson School is about 0.3 miles from Central High School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

Central High School is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, a location NCES labels City: Mid-size.

The school's student count rose 17% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 15.9:1 to 18.6:1.

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