NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools VT

Best-Resourced Schools in South Burlington, VT

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5 public K-12 schools in South 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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5
Schools
2,628
Students
40.8/100
Avg Resource Index
12.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, South Burlington has more public-school enrollment than 23% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. South Burlington's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of South Burlington'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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 16-point gap between South Burlington High School and Chamberlin School shows the range hidden by South Burlington's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 77%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
49th percentile
Teacher staffing
83rd percentile

South Burlington High School accounts for 30.2% of all South Burlington public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means South 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

South Burlington school enrollment varies 2.1× across entities

South Burlington school enrollment ranges from 378 students (lowest) to 793 students (highest), a spread of 415 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

South Burlington operates one school district — a single-district system

South 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

South Burlington student-teacher ratio is 12.6:1 — 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. South Burlington High School 49
2. Rick Marcotte Central School 47
3. Orchard School 39
4. Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School 36
5. Chamberlin School 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in South 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 Orchard School 53.4/100
  2. 2 Chamberlin School 48.9/100
  3. 3 Rick Marcotte Central School 47.2/100
  4. 4 Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School 47.1/100
  5. 5 South Burlington High School 46.8/100

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Which South Burlington school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

South Burlington High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the South Burlington schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in South Burlington, VT? ▼

South Burlington has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,628 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.6:1.

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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.