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Public school / Primary

Bethel Elementary School

Bethel, Vermont

NCES ID
500042600036
District
White River Unified School District #79
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Bethel Elementary School is a public primary school in Bethel, Vermont, run by White River Unified School District #79. It enrols 135 students — the 84175th largest of 305 public schools in Vermont.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

135students

84175th nationally, tied with 109

Teachers

12.0FTE

80415th nationally, tied with 1,412

Students per teacher

11.3students

15700th nationally, tied with 633

Free or reduced-price lunch

41.5%percent

59087th nationally, tied with 112

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within White River Unified School District #79

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1White River Valley High School192 students
  2. 2South Royalton Elementary School164 students
  3. 3Bethel Elementary School135 students
  4. 4White River Valley Middle School134 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Vermont median across 305 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−44.7%
  • Teachers−33.3%
  • Students per teacher−5.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+29.9%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.