Greetings:

On behalf of the Berkley School Committee, administrators, teachers, and staff, I would like to welcome you to the Berkley Public Schools website. The Berkley Public Schools is a preschool –grade 8 district consisting of two schools. The Community School houses students in preschool-grade 4 and the Middle School houses students in grades 5-8. The majority of high school students residing in Berkley attend Somerset High School, Bristol Plymouth Technical Vocational High School, or Bristol County Agricultural High School.

The Berkley Public School Department has an enrollment of approximately 950 students. The average number of students per grade level is approximately 100 and the average class size in grades K-8 is approximately twenty-one. These relatively small class sizes allow each teacher to truly know and understand the learning habits and styles of his or her students.

Every staff member is completely committed to providing the very best education possible to the children that walk through our doors. Teachers strive to provide each student with the necessary skills to reach his or her full potential. It is their intent to motivate and to engage all students in lessons that will allow them to be high-achieving, self-motivated, and creative life-long learners.

Educating students in the 21st Century presents additional challenges that the Berkley educators will meet. The Berkley Public Schools will continue to provide the technology and engineering skills for our students to assist in preparing them to succeed in a world that seems to grow smaller by the day. We currently have two computer instructional labs, a technology and engineering lab, four to five computers in each elementary classroom, and student laptops on carts for whole class instruction at the middle school.

We invite and encourage all current and prospective Berkley residents to call me, Principal Francisco, or Principal Hebert for a tour of the schools.

Sincerely,
Thomas J. Lynch
Superintendent