Montpelier High School
Montpelier · VT · Montpelier Roxbury Unified Union School District #71 · Public
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- 📚 7 AP courses offered — Strong
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 3 calculus classes · 1 physics · 5 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 63th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 50% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 77% (Bottom 25% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Montpelier High School compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 63th percentile nationally with 7 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyVT students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: The New School Of Montpelier, The Pacem School, U-32 Middle & High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
63th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 50% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 25% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -0.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 388 students:
≈ 16 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $23,081 per student in district revenue, the 16 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $369,296/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The New School Of Montpelier Montpelier |
Private | 1.0 | 32 | — |
| The Pacem School Montpelier |
Private | 1.0 | 25 | — |
| U-32 Middle & High School Montpelier |
Public | 3.2 | 449 | -6.5% |
| Stone Path Academy Moretown |
Private | 5.5 | 12 | — |
| Spaulding Union High School Barre |
Public | 6.7 | 610 | -0.5% |
| Central Vermont Career Center Barre |
Public | 6.7 | — | — |
| Northfield Middle/High School Northfield |
Public | 8.2 | 134 | -9.5% |
| Websterville Baptist Christian Academy Websterville |
Private | 9.3 | 115 | +45.6% |