Barre Town Middle and Elementary School

Barre Town Middle and Elementary School
Location
Barre (town), Vermont
Coordinates 44°10′05″N 72°29′07″W / 44.168119°N 72.485368°W / 44.168119; -72.485368
Information
Motto "What I learn today leads me to what I become tomorrow."
Principal Scott Griggs
Grades K-8
Number of students 900
Website http://www.btmes.org/

Barre Town Middle and Elementary School is a school located in Barre (town), 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 Timothy Crowley who mainly takes care of grades 5-8.[1] Crowley was one of only six principals to feature in the '2006 National Distinguished Principals' awards.[2]

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.

In December 2005, two pupils from the school were killed in a fire, the third time in three years that students had lost their lives in an accident.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Barre Town Elementary School", Great Schools
  2. ↑ "2006 National Distinguished Principals", National Association of Elementary School Principals
  3. ↑ "Barre fire kills five", The Barre Montpelier Times Argus, December 18, 2005
  4. ↑ "Central Vermont educators both 'frustrated, pleased' by test scores", The Barre Montpelier Times Argus, February 8, 2007
  5. ↑ "What's Up at School - Science Discoveries", Scholastic.com, June 1, 2005

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