South Burlington High School

South Burlington High School is a high-enrollment high school in Vermont, located in South Burlington. It educates 793 students in grades 9 through 12. The typical figure for high schools in Vermont is about 475 students.

South Burlington High School is run by South Burlington School District, whose 5 schools enroll 2,628 students.

Roughly 72% of students at South Burlington High School are White. Other groups make up 8% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, and 5% Hispanic. County-wide, 86% of Chittenden County residents are White. The school's diversity index is 47%, meaning two students picked at random have a 47% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.0:1 at South Burlington High School, with 72.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, high schools in Vermont average 10.5:1. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 29%.

South Burlington High School is located in Chittenden County, where the median household income is $96,759, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Besides South Burlington High School, Chittenden County has 48 other public schools.

The closest public school to South Burlington High School is Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, about 0.1 miles away. South Burlington High School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles.

Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

Compared with 2020-21, the school had 95 fewer students in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.0:1; by 2024-25 it was 11.0:1.

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