BRIDGEHAMPTON SCHOOL

Located at 2685 MONTAUK HWY, in BRIDGEHAMPTON, New York, BRIDGEHAMPTON SCHOOL is a minimally staffed K-12 campus that works with 185 students (grades pre-K through 12), operated by BRIDGEHAMPTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 544 students each, so BRIDGEHAMPTON SCHOOL sits 66% below that benchmark.

BRIDGEHAMPTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT is the operating authority for BRIDGEHAMPTON SCHOOL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BRIDGEHAMPTON SCHOOL logs that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 29% White, 12% Black, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 4.3:1. The state averages around 8.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BRIDGEHAMPTON SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.5%, the actual is 60.3%, a residual of -1.2 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) reports that median household income runs about $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BRIDGEHAMPTON SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

SAGAPONACK SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around BRIDGEHAMPTON SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BRIDGEHAMPTON SCHOOL at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 60.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. BRIDGEHAMPTON SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 205 (now 185). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 21% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 5.5:1 in 2018 to 4.3:1 today.

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