Greetings:

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

Berkley Public Schools participates in the School Choice Program in various grades.  Each year the School Committee votes to determine which grades to accept choice students, based on projected enrollment.  If accepted as a choice student, parents must transport their own children to and from school.

Berkley Public Schools has an enrollment of approximately 895 in Preschool – Grade 8. The average number of students per grade level for K-8 is 91 and the average class size in grades K-8 is approximately 25. These relatively small class sizes allow each teacher to truly know and understand the learning styles and habits of his/her students.

Every staff member is completely committed to providing the very best education possible to the children that enter their classrooms. Teachers strive to provide each student with the necessary skills needed to reach their 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 meet on a daily basis. The Berkley Public Schools will continue to provide the technology and engineering skills for our students so they are prepared 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, Promethean Boards, interactive white boards, four to five computers in each classroom, and student laptops on mobile carts enabling us to provide whole class instruction at both schools.

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

Sincerely,

 Thomas J. Lynch
Superintendent of Schools