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First Branch Elementary School
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About First Branch Elementary School
First Branch Elementary School operates as a modestly sized primary school in Tunbridge, Vermont, run under First Branch Unified School District #82. Current enrollment sits at 141 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Vermont's public schools average about 213 students each, so First Branch Elementary School sits 34% smaller than that benchmark.
First Branch Unified School District #82 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 230 students; First Branch Elementary School is among them.
Demographically, First Branch Elementary School logs that nearly all students (95%) are White; the rest looks like 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Orange County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.5:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Orange County's rate of about 56%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,232 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Orange County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,532 students), of which First Branch Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: First Branch Middle School, around 5.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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