NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools VT

Best-Resourced Schools in Brattleboro, VT

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5 public K-12 schools in Brattleboro from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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5
Schools
1,740
Students
37.8/100
Avg Resource Index
10.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Brattleboro has more public-school enrollment than 9% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Brattleboro Union High School enrolls 40.5% of Brattleboro's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Brattleboro's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Brattleboro's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 36th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 98th percentile. The 62-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 91%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
36th percentile
Teacher staffing
98th percentile

Brattleboro Union High School accounts for 40.5% of all Brattleboro public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Brattleboro-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Brattleboro school enrollment varies 5.6× across entities

Brattleboro school enrollment ranges from 125 students (lowest) to 705 students (highest), a spread of 580 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Brattleboro operates one school district — a single-district system

Brattleboro's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Brattleboro student-teacher ratio is 10.4:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Brattleboro Area Middle School 42
2. Oak Grove School 42
3. Green Street School 41
4. Brattleboro Union High School 39
5. Academy School 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Brattleboro

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Oak Grove School 53.4/100
  2. 2 Academy School 46.5/100
  3. 3 Green Street School 39.4/100
  4. 4 Brattleboro Area Middle School 38.3/100
  5. 5 Brattleboro Union High School 35.1/100

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Which Brattleboro school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Brattleboro Area Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Brattleboro schools in this federal-data comparison at 42/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Brattleboro, VT? ▼

Brattleboro has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,740 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.4:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.