Barnard Academy

As a micro-enrollment K-5 school in Barnard, Vermont, Barnard Academy instructs 57 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Mountain Views Unified Union School District #76. Enrollment runs roughly 73% below the state mean of about 213.

Barnard Academy is one of 6 schools operated by Mountain Views Unified Union School District #76, a district that teaches 1,006 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Barnard Academy reports that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Windsor County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Barnard Academy reports 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.5:1 average. Roughly 23% of students at Barnard Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Windsor County (around 47%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

In the broader community, census data for Windsor County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,594 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Windsor County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,595 students), of which Barnard Academy is one.

Stockbridge Central School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a low-density site.

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