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283:: built in 1964 and opened February 1, 1965, Blackham School is located on Thorme Street. The school was named after Florence E. Blackham who graduated from Bridgeport High School in 1887 and subsequently Bridgeport City Normal School in 1889. Florence Blackham taught at a plethora of Bridgeport over the course of many years, including: Staples School from 1889 to 1890, Grand Street School in 1890, City Normal School from 1890 to 1892, Franklin School from 1892 to 1903, and Courtland Street School from 1903 to 1911. Additionally, Ms. Blackham served as principal at Jefferson School and Kossuth Street School in 1911. In September 1915 she became the principal of Hall School, a position she held for 23 years. 180: 597: 34: 294:
Rock School was built circa 1865 at the intersection of Brewster Street and Grovers Avenue. It was a two-story brown frame building with a belfry. Originally, all eight grades were taught there, four grades on each floor. An annual event was all grades posing for their school pictures. The present Black Rock School site was built in 1905. In 1911, a wing was added to accommodate the growing number of students.
191:, home to the Business Magnet. In 1924, the Bassick family home was demolished to begin construction for a school. The E & F Construction Company was awarded the contract after submitting a bid for $ 692,946. Architect Ernest G. Southey created a Georgian style plan set back 100 feet from Fairfield Avenue leaving "ample room to the south of the school for a large athletic field." 231:) as well as the Health Magnet Program in association with nearby Bridgeport Hospital plus St. Vincent’s Medical Center on the north side of Bridgeport and the Bridgeport Manor. Its cornerstone was laid on May 10, 1924 by the widow of President Warren G. Harding, and the school opened on September 9, 1925. The school is named for then recently deceased President Warren G. Harding. 153: 289:: established in 1841 on Brewster Street. Black Rock Elementary School is located in one of the historic sections of Bridgeport, CT. The first public Black Rock School was built in 1841 and was located at the intersection of Grovers Avenue and Black Rock Avenue (present-day Brewster Street). It was a one-room structure heated by a Franklin Stove. 301:
In 2015, a new wing was completed, including eight new state-of-the-art classrooms for kindergarten and first grade. There are computers in every classroom and WiFi throughout the building. Classrooms are equipped with Promethean board technology and each student has a district-provided device to use
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For many years, it was customary for elementary schools to have a fife and drum corps. Black Rock School was the first school in Bridgeport to have a band consisting of numerous brass and percussion instruments. After a fire damaged the school, it was renovated and a rededication program was held on
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In later years, the Franklin Stove was replaced with a pot-bellied stove. The students sat on planked benches. These benches were drawn closer to the stove on cold, winter days. It was customary at that time to have two-door entrances - one for the boys and one for the girls. The second public Black
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The city's public school system has 30 elementary schools, three comprehensive high schools, two alternative programs and an interdistrict vocational aquaculture school. The system has about 23,000 students, making the Bridgeport Public Schools the second largest school system in Connecticut. The
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Bridgeport is one of the seven public school systems in District Reference Group I, a classification made by the state Department of Education for the purpose of comparison with the achievement levels of similar schools and districts. District reference groups are defined as "districts whose
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Fairchild Wheeler Interdistrict Magnet Campus established in 2013, home to three magnet schools: Aerospace/Hydrospace Engineering & Physical Science School, Biotechnology Research & Zoological Science School, and Information Technology & Software Engineering
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Built at a cost of $ 107 million the new building was completed in 2018 and is a four-story 207,000 square feet (19,200 m2) square foot structure. It was built on a former General Electric factory site which underwent considerable
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was constructed about 1915 on a North Avenue located then was torn down to allow for Route 8/25 connector in 1968, new location is on Ezra Street named after David F. Read who served from 1890 to 1910 for the Bridgeport Board of
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May 13, 1977. Subsequently, Black Rock School was renovated again, which brought the school up to present-day standards and high technology usage for the school population. The rededication program was held on October 24, 1993.
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opened on November 6, 1906 on Newfield Avenue. Closed at the end of the 2005 - 2006 school year. District turned the building over to the city in Sept. 2006. Now is the Bridgeport Police Department Training Academy @
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Bassick Junior High School opened in 1929 with 1,034 students in grades seven through nine and was soon thereafter converted to a senior high school. A new addition was built in 1968 at a cost of $ 3.5 million.
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was built in 1886 on North Avenue originally dubbed the Oak Street School, then in the fall of 1916 became Webster School honoring Noah Webster who was a well-noted Connecticut resident and educator
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opened in January 1992 on Helen Street named after Luis Muñoz Marín who was elected the first governor of Puerto Rico, while his father Luis Muñoz Rivera was the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico
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The original school was designed by C. Wellington Walker, and was located at 1734 Central Avenue. Featuring Georgian style architecture and Greek columns, it was in service for 93 years.
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Web page titled "Find a Community: By Educational Reference Group (DRG)" at the "Discovery 2007 / An initiative of the William Caspar Graustein Fund" Web site, accessed March 25, 2007
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opened in January 1983 on Union Avenue replacing Abraham Lincoln School which operated from 1896 to 1969 named after Paul Lawrence Dunbar who was an Afro-American novelist and poet
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students' families are similar in education, income, occupation and need, and that have roughly similar enrollment". The other six school districts in the group are
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in school and at home. Black Rock School is now a Pre-K-8 elementary school that is warm and inviting with a hum of learning throughout the building.
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The city has started a large school renovation and construction program, with plans for new schools and modernization of existing buildings.
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constructed in May 1959 on Reservoir Avenue named for Governor Wilber Lucius Cross from 1931 to 1939 the 86th governor of Connecticut
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originally built in 1916 named after the fourth president under the United States Declaration of Independence, James Madison
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constructed in 1922 on Omega Avenue named after a former Board of Education member & Judge of Probate Edward F. Hallen
261::Originally located on East Washington Avenue. This school is now located in the old Barnum School building on Noble Ave. 383:, founded in 1914 on Clermont Avenue, was named in honor of Lyman Hall who was an American Revolutionary War statesman 66: 210: 117: 55: 738: 224: 220: 91: 570: 246: 752: 179: 622: 610: 747: 353:
located next to the Discovery Museum and across from Fairchild Wheeler Golf Course on Park Avenue.
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This article is about the school district in Connecticut. For the school district in Texas, see
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is located on Tesiny Avenue, it is also known as the Bridgeport Learning Center at Sheridan
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Bridgeport High School, about 1910 (the school, in a different building, is now
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State "Strategic School Profile, Bridgeport School District 2005-2006" report
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opened in September 1942 on Roger Williams Road named after Thomas Hooker
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established in 1876, home to Central Magnet, largest of the high schools
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Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture Science and Technology Education Center
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Bridgeport School District main Web page at Great Schools Web site
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who once was a colonial governor of Connecticut, while his father
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at 160 Iranistan Avenue. Erected in October 1966 on George Street.
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school system employs a professional staff of more than 1,700.
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Getaldine Clayton Magnet Academy (formerly Longfellow School)
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Bridgeport Regional Vocational Aquaculture School in 2010.
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which was being built in 1954 & opened in 1955, then
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Another picture of Bridgeport High School, about 1905
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located next to the University of Bridgeport campus.
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