Founders Memorial School

Located at 33 Founders Road, in Essex Junction, Vermont, Founders Memorial School is a high-enrollment primary school that instructs 353 students (grades 3 through 5), overseen by Essex Westford Educational Community Unified Union SD #51. That puts it 66% bigger than the typical public school in Vermont, which averages around 213 students.

Across the 9 schools in Essex Westford Educational Community Unified Union SD #51 (3,635 students total), Founders Memorial School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Founders Memorial School logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Chittenden County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Founders Memorial School records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 24% of students at Founders Memorial School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Chittenden County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Chittenden County indicate the typical household earns roughly $96,759 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Chittenden County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,894 students), Founders Memorial School is one campus in the mix.

Essex Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Founders Memorial School.

Founders Memorial School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Founders Memorial School's enrollment has decreased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 420 (now 353).

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