Achievement First Bridgeport Academy
Bridgeport · CT · Achievement First Bridgeport Academy District · Public charter · K-12 combined
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Warren Harding High School → The Bridge Academy → Bullard-Havens Technical High School → Bridgeport Residential Center → REGIONS secure Bridgeport → Capital Preparatory Harbor School → Kolbe Cathedral High School → Central High School →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 84% (Bottom 33% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Achievement First Bridgeport Academy compares for families
What families should know about Achievement First Bridgeport Academy.
- ▸ LocallyCT students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Warren Harding High School, The Bridge Academy, Bullard-Havens Technical High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 33% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -0.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,090 students:
≈ 25 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $13,668 per student in district revenue, the 25 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $341,700/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren Harding High School Bridgeport |
Public | 0.5 | 1,324 | +17.8% |
| The Bridge Academy Bridgeport |
Public · charter | 0.7 | 181 | +2.8% |
| Bullard-Havens Technical High School Bridgeport |
Public | 0.8 | 819 | -0.7% |
| Bridgeport Residential Center Bridgeport |
Public | 0.9 | — | — |
| REGIONS secure Bridgeport Bridgeport |
Public | 0.9 | — | — |
| Capital Preparatory Harbor School Bridgeport |
Public · charter | 1.4 | 226 | +5.6% |
| Kolbe Cathedral High School Bridgeport |
Private | 1.4 | 326 | +8.3% |
| Central High School Bridgeport |
Public | 1.6 | 1,803 | +14.5% |