Barre City Elementary/Middle School

Barre City Elementary/Middle School, a well-populated K-5 school in Barre, Vermont, one of the schools within Barre Unified Union School District #97, enrolls 701 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 213 students per school, that is 229% bigger than typical.

Barre Unified Union School District #97 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 2,132 students. Barre City Elementary/Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Barre City Elementary/Middle School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.5:1. The state averages around 11.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 68% of students at Barre City Elementary/Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Washington County) logs that median household earnings sit near $83,449, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washington County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,465 students), Barre City Elementary/Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Spaulding Union High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Barre City Elementary/Middle School.

Barre City Elementary/Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Barre City Elementary/Middle School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.