Malletts Bay School

Set in Colchester, Vermont, Malletts Bay School is a substantial elementary-level community, part of Colchester School District. It enrolls 505 students across grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Vermont's public schools average about 213 students each, so Malletts Bay School sits 137% above that benchmark.

Malletts Bay School is one of 5 schools operated by Colchester School District, a district that works with 2,443 students overall.

On demographics, Malletts Bay School shows that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 7% Asian, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the resource side, Malletts Bay School shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.5:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at Malletts Bay School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Chittenden County) logs that median household income runs about $96,759, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Chittenden County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,894 students), of which Malletts Bay School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Colchester Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 33%: 756 students in 2018 compared to 505 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 86% to 78%. Class-load math has fell: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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