NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools VT

Best-Resourced Schools in Essex Junction, VT

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8 public K-12 schools in Essex Junction from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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8
Schools
3,429
Students
49.5/100
Avg Resource Index
12:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Essex Junction has more public-school enrollment than 35% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Essex High School enrolls 35.7% of Essex Junction's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Essex Junction's list includes 2 elementary, 2 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 3 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Essex Junction's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 85th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 17-point gap between Albert D. Lawton School and Summit Street School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 65%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
85th percentile
Teacher staffing
88th percentile

Essex High School accounts for 35.7% of all Essex Junction public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Essex Junction-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Essex Junction school enrollment varies 6.2× across entities

Essex Junction school enrollment ranges from 197 students (lowest) to 1,224 students (highest), a spread of 1,027 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Essex Junction operates one school district — a single-district system

Essex Junction's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Essex Junction student-teacher ratio is 12.0:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Albert D. Lawton School 56
2. Hiawatha Elementary School 56
3. Founders Memorial School 53
4. Essex High School 52
5. Thomas Fleming School 51
6. Essex Middle School 45
7. Essex Elementary School 44
8. Summit Street School 39

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Essex Junction

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Hiawatha Elementary School 47.8/100
  2. 2 Albert D. Lawton School 43.4/100
  3. 3 Summit Street School 43.3/100
  4. 4 Essex Middle School 37.4/100
  5. 5 Essex Elementary School 35.5/100

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Which Essex Junction school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Albert D. Lawton School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Essex Junction schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Essex Junction, VT? ▼

Essex Junction has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,429 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.