Townshend Village School

As a modestly sized K-5 school in Townshend, Vermont, Townshend Village School hosts 112 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by West River Valley Union Education District #72A. That puts it 47% leaner than the typical public school in Vermont, which averages around 213 students.

West River Valley Union Education District #72A runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 217 students. Townshend Village School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Townshend Village School logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.5:1 average. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the area at large, census data for Windham County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,217 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Townshend Village School is one of 28 public schools in Windham County (combined enrollment of about 4,839 students).

Leland & Gray Union Middle & High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

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