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Warren Harding High School
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7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Warren Harding High School
Warren Harding High School operates as a big senior high in Bridgeport, Connecticut, run under Bridgeport School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,324 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 788 students per school, that is 68% bigger than typical.
Bridgeport School District runs 36 schools in total, collectively educating 19,802 students. Warren Harding High School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Warren Harding High School reports that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 33% Black, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.9:1. The state averages around 12.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Greater Bridgeport Planning Region's rate of about 54%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Greater Bridgeport Planning Region) logs that median household earnings sit near $89,667, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Greater Bridgeport Planning Region's 91 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,880 students), Warren Harding High School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Bullard-Havens Technical High School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 37%: 967 students in 2018 compared to 1,324 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 38% to 33% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.
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Greater Bridgeport Planning Region at a glance
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