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Bridgeport High School
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Bridgeport High School
As a medium-sized four-year high school in BRIDGEPORT, Michigan, Bridgeport High School hosts 501 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by Bridgeport-Spaulding Community School District.
Bridgeport-Spaulding Community School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,448 students. Bridgeport High School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Bridgeport High School logs that Black students make up the majority at 74%. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 9% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Saginaw County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Saginaw County's rate of about 59%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Saginaw County put median household income runs about $60,622, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Saginaw County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,621 students), of which Bridgeport High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: MG Millet Learning Center, around 1.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Bridgeport High School's enrollment has contracted 19% since 2018, when it stood at 621 (now 501). Black enrollment moved from 64% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 23.7:1 today.
On the community side, members of the Bridgeport High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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- Martin G Atkins Elementary SchoolElementary · 381 students
- BridgeportSpaulding Middle SchoolSchrahMiddle · 379 students
- Thomas White SchoolElementary · 187 students
- MG Millet Learning Center1.9 mi · 158
- Thomas White School2.0 mi · 187
- Martin G Atkins Elementary School2.1 mi · 381
- BridgeportSpaulding Middle SchoolSchrah2.2 mi · 379
- Saginaw Preparatory Academy2.9 mi · 376
- International Academy of Saginaw3.2 mi · 74