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Public school data · 2005 – 2026 · every district

The Vermont School District Comparer

Compare Vermont school districts with their nearby peers and the state average — test results, spending, enrollment, and community wealth, with changes in tests and funding formulas marked where they occur.

Difference from the state average — focus district, by year

Who the districts serve — share of low-income students

Two eras, two measures. Lines through 2024-25 show the free/reduced-lunch share of English test-takers — a measure the Vermont Agency of Education itself says "may not be an equivalent metric of student poverty": the 2022 dip and 2024–25 jumps reflect universal school meals and a Medicaid direct-certification pilot, not poverty changes. The ◆ marks at ’24-25 are the Act 127 low-income share — direct certification (SNAP/Reach Up/foster/Medicaid at ≤185% of the federal poverty level) from AOE's Long-Term Weighted ADM — the measure the state now uses for funding, and the one this page's expectation view uses from 2023-24 onward.

Spending per weighted pupil

Student population

Why the early grades matter. This year's kindergarten class is the next decade's student body: a small entering class moves up one grade per year, so today's K count previews enrollment, staffing and building needs years before they arrive. Comparing the entering class with total enrollment shows whether a district's future is bigger or smaller than its present.

% change view: every district starts at 0% in its first year on the chart and its line shows the cumulative change since then, so different-sized districts can be compared fairly — the line that falls fastest is shrinking fastest, regardless of size. The dashed line is Vermont.

Counts are fall average daily membership, rolled up from every school reporting under the district's supervisory union.

The entering class is tomorrow's enrollment: each small kindergarten class ripples upward grade by grade, previewing student population and facilities needs a decade out. Counts come from the Vermont Agency of Education (AOE) Vermont Education Dashboard enrollment dataset. The 2017–18 school year is a deliberate gap: in the published workbook every school's 2017–18 counts run roughly 1.8× their adjacent years — a fault in the source data, not a real enrollment spike — so the charts break rather than show the corrupted year. 2018–19 through 2020–21 rows are published without district labels and are re-attached here by school.

Total K-12 enrollment

Property wealth per student

Property wealth per student is the equalized value of the district's grand list divided by its enrollment — when a wealthy district shrinks, the wealth behind each remaining student climbs. In the % change view every line starts at 0% in its first charted year and shows the cumulative change since; the dollars view shows each year's level. Dollars are inflation-adjusted (CPI-U) to constant recent dollars; the dashed line is Vermont. Not spending capacity: education taxes pool statewide under Act 68.

The numbers

Suppressed cells (⊘) are withheld in the source for student privacy — they are unknown, not zero. ▲ on a chart's axis marks a district's first year under new governance (Act 46 mergers and later withdrawals) — earlier values describe predecessor districts. Sources: Vermont Agency of Education (assessment dashboards, per-pupil spending reports, graduation rates); assembled and normalized in the vt-education-data project. Prototype — data embedded as of July 2026 · build 1384700+ · 2026-07-10 22:02 UTC.