NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools VT

Best-Resourced Schools in Burlington, VT

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

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9
Schools
3,398
Students
36.8/100
Avg Resource Index
12.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Burlington has more public-school enrollment than 34% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Burlington sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

6 of Burlington's 9 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

Burlington's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 32nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 88th percentile. The 56-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 66%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
32nd percentile
Teacher staffing
88th percentile

Burlington High School accounts for 27.1% of all Burlington public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Burlington-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

Burlington school enrollment varies 4.6× across entities

Burlington school enrollment ranges from 201 students (lowest) to 921 students (highest), a spread of 720 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

Burlington operates one school district — a single-district system

Burlington'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

Burlington student-teacher ratio is 12.1:1 — 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. Integrated Arts Academy at H. O. Wheeler 44
2. Edmunds Middle School 43
3. Lyman C. Hunt Middle School 43
4. J. J. Flynn School 39
5. Edmunds Elementary School 36
6. C. P. Smith School 35
7. Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes 32
8. Burlington High School 31
9. Champlain School 28

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Burlington

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 Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes 72.6/100
  2. 2 Integrated Arts Academy at H. O. Wheeler 67.0/100
  3. 3 Edmunds Elementary School 65.7/100
  4. 4 Edmunds Middle School 63.5/100
  5. 5 Burlington High School 58.8/100

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Which Burlington school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Integrated Arts Academy at H. O. Wheeler has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Burlington schools in this federal-data comparison at 44/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Burlington, VT? ▼

Burlington has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,398 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.1:1.

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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.