Vermont Schools Atlas
An interactive view of every public school in Vermont, layered with town-level data on population, enrollment, and chronic absenteeism. Zoom and pan to explore; toggle layers and heat overlays in the side panel.
Vermont Schools Atlas
Hover a town or school for details
200 schools visible across 252 Vermont towns. Use the layer checkboxes on the left to filter the map, and the heat overlay to color towns by population, enrollment, or absenteeism. Scroll to zoom; drag to pan.
Sources
Base map
US Census TIGERweb (Vermont town boundaries).
School points + town aggregation
Vermont Agency of Education — Schools by SU directory and Fall ADM enrollment by grade. Schools with suppressed counts contribute to their town's average only when an absenteeism rate is reported.
Demographics overlays
- Town population — AOE town aggregation, US Census 2020 Decennial · 2020
- Median age — US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (B01002) · ACS 2020–2024
- Adults with bachelor's or higher — US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (B15003) · ACS 2020–2024
- Single-parent share of households with children — US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (B11005) · ACS 2020–2024
Education overlays
- Total enrollment per town — Vermont Agency of Education (AOE), Schools by SU · 2023-24
- Chronic absenteeism (avg per town) — Vermont Agency of Education (AOE), Schools by SU · 2023-24
- Distance to nearest CTE center — Derived: straight-line distance from town center to nearest of Vermont’s 16 CTE centers · computed
- Flexible Pathways participation rate — Vermont AOE Education Dashboard — share of the assessed cohort engaging in ≥1 flexible pathway · 2024-25
- Students in Flexible Pathways (est.) — Vermont AOE Education Dashboard — assessed cohort × participation rate, summed per town · 2024-25
- FP participants as % of total enrollment — Vermont AOE Education Dashboard ÷ town K-12 enrollment. Note: the numerator is the AOE-assessed cohort (roughly one grade), so this understates multi-grade engagement — compare towns, not absolute levels · 2024-25
Economic overlays
- Median household income — US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (B19013) · ACS 2020–2024
- Poverty rate — US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (B17001) · ACS 2020–2024
- Child poverty rate (under 18) — US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (B17001, ages 0–17) · ACS 2020–2024
- Unemployment rate — US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (B23025) · ACS 2020–2024
- Households with broadband — US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (B28002) · ACS 2020–2024
Health overlays
- Frequent mental distress (adults) — County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (UW Population Health Institute) · 2025 · county-level
- Uninsured rate — County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (UW Population Health Institute) · 2025 · county-level
- Adult obesity — County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (UW Population Health Institute) · 2025 · county-level
Food security overlays
- Food insecurity rate — County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (UW Population Health Institute), via Feeding America Map the Meal Gap · 2025 · county-level
- Limited access to healthy foods — County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (UW Population Health Institute) · 2025 · county-level