Bellows Free Academy (St. Albans)

Set in Saint Albans, Vermont, Bellows Free Academy (St. Albans) is a sprawling four-year high school, part of Maple Run Unified Union School District #57. It hosts 905 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 91% larger than the state mean of about 475.

Maple Run Unified Union School District #57 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,589 students. Bellows Free Academy (St. Albans) is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Bellows Free Academy (St. Albans) shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Bellows Free Academy (St. Albans) logs 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.5:1 average. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Franklin County's rate of about 53%.

In the area at large, Franklin County reports that median household income runs about $81,313, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Franklin County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,007 students), Bellows Free Academy (St. Albans) is one campus in the mix.

St. Albans Town Educational Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Bellows Free Academy (St. Albans).

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 8%: 837 students in 2018 compared to 905 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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