Berkshire Elementary School

Berkshire Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary campus in Richford, Vermont, overseen by Northern Mountain Valley Unified Union School District #85, serves 185 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

Northern Mountain Valley Unified Union School District #85 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 822 students. Berkshire Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Berkshire Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest comes out to 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Franklin County as a whole.

On the resource side, Berkshire Elementary School logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. The state averages about 11.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Franklin County (around 53%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Across the wider county, census data for Franklin County shows median household earnings sit near $81,313, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Berkshire Elementary School is one of 22 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 8,007 students).

Richford Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.4 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

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