Bear Path School
Hamden, CT · Middle School
Bear Path School is a middle school in Hamden, CT with 406 students enrolled and a 65% proficiency rate. Part of Hamden School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Bear Path School is a middle school located in Hamden, Connecticut. The school serves 406 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.5:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 65% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
32% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Bear Path School is part of the Hamden School District in Connecticut.
How This School Compares
Bear Path School has 406 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Hamden School District (501 students). Its 65% proficiency rate is 12 percentage points above the district average of 53%. Compared to the Connecticut state average of 53%, the school performs 12 points higher. With a 14.5:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Bear Path School has 406 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.5:1.
According to EDFacts data, 65% of students at Bear Path School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Bear Path School is part of the Hamden School District in Hamden, Connecticut. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.