Bridgeport Elementary

Bridgeport Elementary is a cozy elementary school in Newport, Tennessee, part of Cocke County. The school teaches 261 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Bridgeport Elementary sits 44% leaner than that benchmark.

Cocke County comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 4,202 students; Bridgeport Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bridgeport Elementary records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Across the wider county, census data for Cocke County shows the typical household earns roughly $48,016 per year, roughly 11% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Across Cocke County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,932 students), Bridgeport Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Newport Grammar School, around 3.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 21%: 330 students in 2018 compared to 261 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.