What Vermont School Districts Spend Per Student
The median Vermont school district spends $17,942 per student per year, $3,399 above the national median of $14,543, across all 102 districts the state reports. The 100 of them a ZIP code can reach are listed below, and their 82,770 students account for $1.7 billion of current spending in fiscal year 2022.
Vermont at a Glance
| Median district, per student | $17,942 |
|---|---|
| National median district | $14,543 |
| Districts listed | 100 of 102 |
| Students listed | 82,770 |
| Median district, math | — |
| Median district, reading | — |
Every Vermont District, by Enrollment
Spending is current spending divided by fall membership for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates are school year 2018-19, the last year before the pandemic interrupted state testing, so the money and the results are not from the same year. A figure marked ≈ is one the federal file published as a range rather than a value, so small groups of children stay unidentifiable; it is the middle of that range and within ten points of the real one. A dash means the federal files publish no value under that district's ID. 2 further Vermont districts are missing because the federal boundary file places them in no ZIP code, which is normal for charter and virtual districts with no attendance area.
| District | Students | Per student | Math | Reading | Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champlain Valley Unified School District | 4,212 | $22,463 | — | — | — |
| Essex-Westford Educational Community Unified School District | 3,825 | $27,102 | — | — | — |
| Burlington School District | 3,500 | $28,262 | — | — | — |
| South Burlington School District | 2,705 | $21,608 | — | — | — |
| Maple Run Unified School District | 2,646 | $24,806 | — | — | — |
| Mount Mansfield Unified Union School District 401 | 2,629 | $20,343 | — | — | — |
| Windham Southeast Unified Union School District 96 | 2,422 | $17,938 | — | — | — |
| Colchester School District | 2,409 | $20,786 | — | — | — |
| Barre Unified Union School District 97 | 2,185 | $25,148 | — | — | — |
| Rutland City School District | 2,015 | $27,621 | — | — | — |
| Missisquoi Valley School District 89 | 1,810 | $23,788 | — | — | — |
| Harwood Unified School District | 1,793 | $25,042 | — | — | — |
| Kingdom East Unified Union School District (elementary district) | 1,786 | $18,643 | — | — | — |
| Addison Central Unified School District | 1,760 | $23,788 | — | — | — |
| Taconic and Green Regional School District (elementary district) | 1,678 | $9,641 | — | — | — |
| Elmore-Morristown Unified Union School District 90 | 1,637 | $22,256 | — | — | — |
| Milton Incorporated School District | 1,537 | $22,807 | — | — | — |
| Washington Central Unified Union School District 92 | 1,494 | $25,398 | — | — | — |
| Mount Anthony UHSD 14 | 1,493 | $13,069 | — | — | — |
| Hartford School District | 1,471 | $28,056 | — | — | — |
| Mt. Abraham Unified School District | 1,433 | $23,163 | — | — | — |
| Southwest Vermont Union Elementary School District 87 (elementary district) | 1,371 | $10,568 | — | — | — |
| Slate Valley Unified Union School District 62 | 1,255 | $24,015 | — | — | — |
| Montpelier Roxbury Unified Union School District | 1,252 | $21,708 | — | — | — |
| Springfield School District | 1,249 | $26,125 | — | — | — |
| Otter Valley Unified Union School District 53 | 1,248 | $17,229 | — | — | — |
| Enosburgh-Richford Unified Union School District 88 | 1,121 | $16,722 | — | — | — |
| Quarry Valley Unified Union School District 70 | 1,095 | $14,376 | — | — | — |
| Paine Mountain School District | 1,077 | $12,716 | — | — | — |
| Mountain Views Unified Union School District | 1,067 | $17,428 | — | — | — |
| St. Johnsbury School District (elementary district) | 1,066 | $15,996 | — | — | — |
| Fairfax School District | 1,034 | $10,865 | — | — | — |
| Addison Northwest Unified School District | 922 | $24,042 | — | — | — |
| Orange Southwest Unified School District | 884 | $28,623 | — | — | — |
| Northern Mountain Valley Unified Union School District 85 (elementary district) | 803 | $13,883 | — | — | — |
| Mill River Unified School District | 786 | $26,995 | — | — | — |
| Winooski School District | 780 | $38,145 | — | — | — |
| Lake Region Union Elementary Middle School District (elementary district) | 776 | $14,853 | — | — | — |
| Lamoille North Modified USD 058B (high school district) | 766 | $21,187 | — | — | — |
| Green Mountain Unified School District | 730 | $16,777 | — | — | — |
| Oxbow Unified Union School District 91 | 702 | $18,805 | — | — | — |
| North Country Senior UHSD 22 (high school district) | 698 | $22,330 | — | — | — |
| Mount Ascutney School District 86 | 656 | $13,893 | — | — | — |
| Georgia School District (elementary district) | 632 | $12,747 | — | — | — |
| Lamoille North Modified USD 058A (elementary district) | 613 | $24,046 | — | — | — |
| White River Unified School District | 601 | $16,205 | — | — | — |
| Caledonia Cooperative Unified School District (elementary district) | 569 | $12,195 | — | — | — |
| Rockingham School District (elementary district) | 505 | $13,143 | — | — | — |
| Derby School District (elementary district) | 474 | $15,422 | — | — | — |
| Rivendell Interstate School District | 442 | $29,670 | — | — | — |
| Arlington School District | 411 | $15,299 | — | — | — |
| Blue Mountain USD 21 | 395 | $19,466 | — | — | — |
| Rutland Town School District (elementary district) | 393 | $13,504 | — | — | — |
| Thetford School District (elementary district) | 389 | $10,388 | — | — | — |
| Danville School District | 382 | $15,277 | — | — | — |
| Twin Valley Unified School District | 374 | $21,107 | — | — | — |
| Lake Region UHSD 24 (high school district) | 371 | $17,388 | — | — | — |
| Mountain View Union Elementary School District (elementary district) | 355 | $14,639 | — | — | — |
| Norwich School District (elementary district) | 339 | $40,027 | — | — | — |
| Newport City School District (elementary district) | 328 | $19,652 | — | — | — |
| Twinfield USD 33 | 313 | $17,447 | — | — | — |
| Cambridge School District (elementary district) | 311 | $18,350 | — | — | — |
| Bellows Falls UHSD 27 (high school district) | 310 | $17,468 | — | — | — |
| First Branch Unified School District (elementary district) | 310 | $16,742 | — | — | — |
| Hartland School District (elementary district) | 307 | $16,785 | — | — | — |
| Hazen UHSD 26 (high school district) | 302 | $16,530 | — | — | — |
| Waits River Valley USD 36 (elementary district) | 286 | $14,878 | — | — | — |
| Weathersfield School District (elementary district) | 261 | $12,123 | — | — | — |
| Windham Northeast Union Elementary School District 95 (elementary district) | 249 | $14,546 | — | — | — |
| Ludlow Mt. Holly Unified Union School District (elementary district) | 243 | $18,095 | — | — | — |
| Barstow Unified School District (elementary district) | 222 | $13,234 | — | — | — |
| Champlain Islands Unified Union School District 66 (elementary district) | 221 | $19,982 | — | — | — |
| West River Valley Modified Union Education District 72A (elementary district) | 218 | $42,991 | — | — | — |
| Mettawee School District (elementary district) | 215 | $17,800 | — | — | — |
| Sharon School District (elementary district) | 212 | $11,292 | — | — | — |
| Craftsbury School District | 209 | $13,813 | — | — | — |
| Alburgh School District (elementary district) | 203 | $19,562 | — | — | — |
| Echo Valley Community School District (elementary district) | 203 | $12,133 | — | — | — |
| River Valleys Unified School District 73 (elementary district) | 197 | $15,127 | — | — | — |
| Troy School District (elementary district) | 192 | $16,333 | — | — | — |
| Vernon School District (elementary district) | 191 | $18,455 | — | — | — |
| Wells Spring Unified Union School District (elementary district) | 183 | $16,492 | — | — | — |
| Canaan School District | 178 | $28,270 | — | — | — |
| Cabot School District | 164 | $16,415 | — | — | — |
| Strafford School District (elementary district) | 160 | $11,762 | — | — | — |
| Rochester Stockbridge Unified School District (elementary district) | 148 | $16,345 | — | — | — |
| South Hero School District (elementary district) | 148 | $20,669 | — | — | — |
| Wolcott School District (elementary district) | 130 | $11,508 | — | — | — |
| Newport Town School District (elementary district) | 128 | $17,945 | — | — | — |
| Charleston School District (elementary district) | 127 | $18,709 | — | — | — |
| Brighton School District (elementary district) | 126 | $17,968 | — | — | — |
| Marlboro School District (elementary district) | 122 | $17,426 | — | — | — |
| Coventry School District (elementary district) | 120 | $21,525 | — | — | — |
| Fletcher School District (elementary district) | 113 | $12,894 | — | — | — |
| Peacham School District (elementary district) | 96 | $12,042 | — | — | — |
| Lowell School District (elementary district) | 92 | $20,207 | — | — | — |
| Stamford School District (elementary district) | 72 | $16,819 | — | — | — |
| Halifax (elementary district) | 68 | $20,956 | — | — | — |
| Readsboro (elementary district) | 49 | $21,959 | — | — | — |
| Windham School District (elementary district) | 20 | $15,750 | — | — | — |
Sources
Spending and enrollment come from the NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates come from EDFacts for school year 2018-19. Districts are matched to ZIP codes through the NCES EDGE geographic relationship file. Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled: a figure is read from a federal source file or it is left blank.
Questions About Vermont School Spending
How much does the average Vermont school district spend per student?
The middle, or median, Vermont district spent $17,942 per student in fiscal year 2022, $3,399 above the national median of $14,543. The median is the better summary here: a few very small districts spend several times what a large one does, and an average would follow them. That median covers all 102 districts the state reports. Across the 100 a ZIP code can reach, which are the ones listed on this page, 82,770 students account for $1.7 billion of current spending.
Which Vermont districts spend the most and least per student?
West River Valley Modified Union Education District 72A reports the highest figure in the table at $42,991 per student for 218 students, and Taconic and Green Regional School District the lowest at $9,641 for 1,678 students. Enrollment is the denominator, so a small district with one building and one bus route honestly produces a high figure; read the two columns together.
Why are some Vermont districts missing from this table?
Vermont has 102 districts with federal finance data and 100 of them appear here. The rest are placed in no ZIP code by the federal boundary file, which is normal for charter and virtual school districts that have no attendance area, so there is no ZIP code a reader could use to find them.
Does this money follow a child who is homeschooled?
No. The figure is what the district spends on a seat in its own schools, funded from local property tax, state formula aid and federal programs. Withdrawing a child removes the child from the count rather than sending the money home. TheHomeschoolingCompany is $1,788 for one student for a school year by comparison, less for each child after the first.
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