Barre Unified Union School District 97

Where this district is the answer, and where it is not

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Barre Unified Union School District 97, grouped by the ZIP Code area each block falls in. The Census Bureau publishes the blocks; the grouping is computed here, and it is the only place these particular numbers exist.

• Homes inside the boundary7,881
• Residents16,414
• ZIP Code areas it reaches5
• Where it is the only district2
• Where it shares with another district3
• Where it holds under half a percent0
• Land area35 square miles
• Homes per square mile228

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

It is the only district serving 2 of them and shares the other 3. It holds 100% of the homes in 05678 and 57% of the homes in 05649; each entry below says how much of that area's homes it holds, and the rest belong to somebody else.

• ZIP Code 05678 · Websterville, Vermont100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 05670 · South Barre, Vermont100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 05641 · Barre, Vermont91% of the homes
• ZIP Code 05654 · Graniteville, Vermont77% of the homes
• ZIP Code 05649 · East Barre, Vermont57% of the homes

What one name misses where high school is arranged elsewhere

Barre Unified Union School District 97 is the largest district in 5 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 978 of the 8,859 homes those areas hold — though in 2 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Barre Unified Union School District 97 is one of 5 districts the file names for ZIP Code 05641 · Barre, Vermont at that level. It holds 7,186 of the 7,929 homes there; the rest is 743 homes with Washington Central Unified Union School District 92, Echo Valley Community and Twinfield USD 33. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 743 of the homes in it.

Barre Unified Union School District 97 holds 446 of the 578 homes in ZIP Code 05654 · Graniteville, Vermont, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 132 homes with Paine Mountain and Echo Valley Community.

Barre Unified Union School District 97 holds 139 of the 242 homes in ZIP Code 05649 · East Barre, Vermont, and 103 of the homes counted there have no high school district named for them in the federal file at all. A lookup that answers with one name misses 103 of them, and it also misses the arrangement: the only high school district the file names here is Barre Unified Union School District 97.

In ZIP Code 05670 · South Barre, Vermont the single-name answer is the true one: Barre Unified Union School District 97 holds all 30 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 05678 · Websterville, Vermont is another area where one name covers everything — 80 homes, all of them inside Barre Unified Union School District 97.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Barre Unified Union School District 97 runs pre-K through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — Echo Valley Community, Washington Central Unified Union School District 92 and Paine Mountain. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Echo Valley Community School District445 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Washington Central Unified Union School District 92353 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Paine Mountain School District118 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Twinfield USD 3362 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Barre Unified Union School District 97 appears alongside a mix of district kinds — Echo Valley Community, Paine Mountain, Washington Central Unified Union School District 92 and Twinfield USD 33. Where the kinds differ, the two are not competing for the same address: one takes the lower grades and the other takes high school, and a household may be served by both.

• Echo Valley Community School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Paine Mountain School District1 shared ZIP area
• Washington Central Unified Union School District 921 shared ZIP area
• Twinfield USD 331 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Vermont167 of 264 ZIP areas split
• Every district with a page here260 districts listed

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address. A district settles that question on its own site: look for a school locator, a find my school tool, or an attendance zone map. Where there is none, ask the office itself.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 3 of the 5 ZIP Code areas Barre Unified Union School District 97 reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

This site links to no district website. None of the federal files it is built from publishes one, and a guessed address is worse than none. It is the district office, not a search engine, that settles an address.

If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.

What this cannot tell you

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file. Nothing on this page adjusts one to the other. Where houses have been built or cleared since the count, a share here describes the place as it was counted rather than as it stands today, and in the fastest-growing ZIP Code areas that gap is the largest single source of error on this site.

A share on this page is a share of the homes in the ZIP Code area, not a probability for any particular address. Enrollment is decided by street address, and a district may run magnet, charter or choice programs that ignore the boundary entirely. If a decision depends on the answer, the district office is the only authority; this page shows what the federal boundary files say and when they were published.

A district boundary is not a school attendance zone. This site never says which school an address is assigned to: no current national dataset of attendance zones exists, and the district draws them itself. Nor is anything here endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau; we use their published files, and that is the whole of the relationship.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not an area. What is mapped here is the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area, the closest published approximation to it. The two are not identical, and a handful of ZIP Codes used only for post office boxes or single buildings have no tabulation area at all.

Where these numbers come from

School district boundaries come from the Census Bureau's Census Geographic Relationship File, current 2026 vintage, which assigns every census block to a unified district or to an elementary and a secondary district. Homes and residents in each block come from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), H1_001 and P1_001. The ZIP Code areas come from the same Geographic Relationship File, block to ZIP Code Tabulation Area. District names and grade ranges come from the Census Gazetteer 2025, with 2020 for districts no longer listed.

The place name printed beside a ZIP Code comes from the Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area relationship files: place, county subdivision and county, taken 2026-09-06. It is a label rather than a measurement: the Census Bureau does not publish which post office a ZIP Code belongs to, so the place named is the one covering the most land inside the area, not the city the Postal Service prints on an envelope.

Everything else on this page — the shares, the counts of districts per ZIP, the comparison between the two grade bands, the rankings — is computed here from those files. The source publishes none of it. Snapshot taken 2026-09-03.