Lunenburg & Gilman Schools

Lunenburg & Gilman Schools is a small elementary school in Gilman, Vermont, one of the schools in Kingdom East Unified Union School District #64. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 64 students. For comparison, elementary schools in Vermont average about 213 students.

Kingdom East Unified Union School District #64 has 1,170 students in 7 schools, and Lunenburg & Gilman Schools is one of those schools.

White students are the large majority at Lunenburg & Gilman Schools, with 92% of enrollment. Next come 3% multiracial. The White share in Essex County as a whole is similar, at about 94%. The chance that two students picked at random at Lunenburg & Gilman Schools belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 15%.

The school has about 9.1 students per teacher and 7.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. That ratio is under the 11.5:1 average for elementary schools in Vermont. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 73%. On average, public schools in Essex County report 62%.

In the county around the school, Essex County, median household income is about $59,294, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. A total of 5 public schools operate in Essex County, serving about 519 students.

Nearby, White Mountains Regional High School is about 5.5 miles away. Other public schools within ten miles number at least 8.

Locale: Rural: Remote. In NCES terms, the school is in rural territory far from an urban area.

Federal data put enrollment at 127 in 2020-21 and 64 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. The number of students per teacher fell from 10.6 to 9.1 over 4 years.

Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.