Folsom Education & Community Center

Folsom Education & Community Center is an elementary school of tight-knit scale in South Hero, Vermont, one of the schools within South Hero School District, instructing 164 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 213 students per school, that is 23% smaller than typical.

Operationally, Folsom Education & Community Center answers to South Hero School District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Folsom Education & Community Center shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest comes out to 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.5:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at Folsom Education & Community Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Grand Isle County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Grand Isle County put the typical household earns roughly $97,396 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Folsom Education & Community Center is one of 4 public schools in Grand Isle County (combined enrollment of about 551 students).

Grand Isle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Folsom Education & Community Center has rose 9%, going from 150 students in 2018 to 164 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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