Thomas Hooker School

Thomas Hooker School, a small elementary-level community in Bridgeport, Connecticut, overseen by Bridgeport School District, works with 288 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Connecticut's public schools average about 378 students each, so Thomas Hooker School sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.

Thomas Hooker School is one of 36 schools operated by Bridgeport School District, a district that works with 19,802 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Thomas Hooker School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Black, 8% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Thomas Hooker School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Roughly 82% of students at Thomas Hooker School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Greater Bridgeport Planning Region's rate of about 54%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Greater Bridgeport Planning Region) logs that 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), Thomas Hooker School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Multicultural Magnet School, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 343 students in 2018 compared to 288 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 46% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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