Spaulding Union High School

Spaulding Union High School is one of the mid-tier senior highs in Barre, Vermont, overseen by Barre Unified Union School District #97, with 610 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 28% bigger than the typical public school in Vermont, which averages around 475 students.

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

Demographically, Spaulding Union High School lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Spaulding Union High School logs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. The state averages about 10.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 46% of students at Spaulding Union High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,449 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Washington County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,465 students), Spaulding Union High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Barre City Elementary/Middle School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

On the community side, members of the Spaulding Union High School community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.