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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

Harry M. Bailey Middle School

West Haven, Connecticut

NCES ID
090495001036
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Harry M. Bailey Middle School is a public middle school in West Haven, Connecticut, run by West Haven School District. It enrols 861 students — the 12013th largest of 1,025 public schools in Connecticut.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

861students

12013th nationally, tied with 25

Teachers

85.0FTE

4133rd nationally, tied with 142

Students per teacher

10.1students

9594th nationally, tied with 378

Free or reduced-price lunch

57.5%percent

42986th nationally, tied with 104

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within West Haven School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1West Haven High School1,780 students
  2. 2Carrigan 5/6 Intermediate School876 students
  3. 3Harry M. Bailey Middle School861 students
  4. 4Savin Rock Community School478 students
  5. 5Forest School410 students
  6. 6Seth G. Haley School383 students
  7. 7Washington School372 students
  8. 8Alma E. Pagels School371 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Connecticut median across 1,025 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+95.2%
  • Teachers+142.9%
  • Students per teacher−14.4%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+44.7%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.