Jettie S. Tisdale School

Jettie S. Tisdale School is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in Bridgeport, Connecticut, run under Bridgeport School District, with 547 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Connecticut's public schools average about 378 students each, so Jettie S. Tisdale School sits 45% bigger than that benchmark.

Bridgeport School District runs 36 schools in total, collectively educating 19,802 students. Jettie S. Tisdale School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Jettie S. Tisdale School logs that 54% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 36% Black, 7% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the income-and-resources front, Jettie S. Tisdale School lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. The state averages about 12.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Greater Bridgeport Planning Region (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,667 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region runs 91 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,880 students), of which Jettie S. Tisdale School is one.

Paul Laurence Dunbar School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jettie S. Tisdale School has contracted 17%, going from 658 students in 2018 to 547 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 43% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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