Barre Town Middle and Elementary School
| Barre Town Middle and Elementary School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| , United States | |
| Coordinates | 44°10′05″N 72°29′07″W / 44.168119°N 72.485368°W ⧼validator-fatal-error⧽ |
| Information | |
| Motto | "What I learn today leads me to what I become tomorrow." |
| Established | 1969 |
| Principal | Scott Griggs |
| Grades | K-8 |
| Number of students | 900 |
| Website | btmes |
Barre Town Middle and Elementary School is a school located in Barre, Vermont, USA and is more commonly known as BTMES or Barre Town School. The school is a K-8 school, also with a pre-school program, and has around 1,000 pupils. There are two principals; Jennifer W. Nye who supervises mainly K-4 (Dr. Theodore Riggen retired in 2009), and Scott Griggs who mainly takes care of grades 5–8.[1]
Barre Town Middle and Elementary school offers school sports. In the fall there is field hockey, boys soccer, and girls soccer. In the winter there is boys and girls basketball. In the Spring there is baseball and softball.
Tests results released in February 2007 detailed that students at Barre Town performed above and, in one case, well above the state averages. On the writing test 60 percent of Barre Town students were proficient or better — 11 percentage points above the statewide average.[2] The noted Scholastic company reported that Kindergarten students at Barre Town spent six weeks experimenting with force and motion in the school's science lab, which is unusual at that age.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Barre Town Elementary School", Great Schools
- ↑ "Central Vermont educators both 'frustrated, pleased' by test scores", The Barre Montpelier Times Argus, February 8, 2007
- ↑ "What's Up at School - Science Discoveries", Scholastic.com, June 1, 2005
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