Public school / Primary
Essex Elementary School
Essex Junction, Vermont
- NCES ID
- 500039500123
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Essex Elementary School is a public primary school in Essex Junction, Vermont, run by Essex Westford Educational Community Unified Union SD #51. It enrols 521 students — the 34817th largest of 305 public schools in Vermont.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
521
Teachers
34.0
Students per teacher
15.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
12.1%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Essex Westford Educational Community Unified Union SD #51
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Essex High School1,208 students
- 2Essex Elementary School521 students
- 3Essex Middle School382 students
- 4Founders Memorial School346 students
- 5Summit Street School336 students
- 6Albert D. Lawton School319 students
- 7Hiawatha Elementary School223 students
- 8Thomas Fleming School206 students
- Enrollment+113.5%
- Teachers+88.9%
- Students per teacher+28.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−62.1%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory