Brigantine Community School

Brigantine Community School is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in Brigantine, New Jersey, part of Brigantine Public School District, with 380 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

Brigantine Community School sits inside Brigantine Public School District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Brigantine Community School records that White students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder comes out to 12% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Brigantine Community School has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 6.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at Brigantine Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Atlantic County's rate of about 59%.

With demographic context factored in, Brigantine Community School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Atlantic County indicate median household earnings sit near $78,050, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Atlantic County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), Brigantine Community School is one campus in the mix.

Uptown School Complex is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Brigantine Community School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 17.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.