Bridgehampton School, the only school in the district, educates students from Pre-K to Grade 12. The sports teams are known as the "Killer Bees," and the basketball team has won nine small-school state championships as of 2016, including in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2015. Students now play football at Southampton High School in a consoritum that also includes Pierson Middle-High School in Sag Harbor, New York. During the 1990s basketball victory run, the mascot for the team changed from the "Bridgies" to the Killer Bees after Ed Kirkman on January 17, 1988, in the New York Daily News. The away jerseys for the team still has the name "Bridgies" on it although the home jerseys have the "Bees" on them. The basketball court originally opened in 1931 dubbed the Bee Hive or Matchbox is smaller than regulation size with it being 13 foot shorter sideline to sideline and 19 feet shorter from baseline to baseline. School officials claimed it was the smallest court in high school play in the country. The last game played in The Hive was February 2, 2020, vs. Shelter Island. In the 2020-2021 season, a new regulation court is to be built adjacent to the school as part of a $30 million expansion that also includes new classrooms. For a period that lasted through most of the 1990s, the school had a primarily African-American enrollment, but a 2004 New York Times article detailed large demographic changes in the community and the school. Carl Yastrzemski broke the local high basketball scoring record before graduating in 1957. He attended University of Notre Dame on a basketball scholarship after graduating the school. He also hit.512 while playing high school baseball and led the team to two straight Suffolk County championships. Shaquille O'Neal produced a documentary history of the basketball team in connection with the 2015-2016 season titled Killer Bees which was the project of Orson and Ben Cummings. Included in the movie was Joe Zucker, an artist who is a volunteer assistant coach for the team. Due to its small size, some have proposed that the high school portion of the school should be closed and students sent to larger nearby high schools in adjacent districts. A ballot to close the high school during the 1987-88 school year narrowly succeeded, but was later overturned. A 2009 initiative was also defeated.
