Public school / Primary
Paul Laurence Dunbar School
Bridgeport, Connecticut
- NCES ID
- 090045001161
- District
- Bridgeport School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Paul Laurence Dunbar School is a public primary school in Bridgeport, Connecticut, run by Bridgeport School District. It enrols 368 students — the 55804th largest of 1,025 public schools in Connecticut.
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
368
Teachers
28.0
Students per teacher
13.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
88.9%
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.
Within Bridgeport 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.
- 1Central High School1,677 students
- 2Warren Harding High School1,109 students
- 3Blackham School1,068 students
- 4Cesar Batalla School1,054 students
- 5Bassick High School1,009 students
- 6Geraldine Johnson School806 students
- 7Read School730 students
- 8Luis Munoz Marin School724 students
- Enrollment−16.6%
- Teachers−20.0%
- Students per teacher+11.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+123.6%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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