Shelburne Community School

As a well-populated elementary campus in Shelburne, Vermont, Shelburne Community School works with 788 students from grades pre-K through 8, one of the schools within Champlain Valley Unified Union School District #56. That puts it 270% above the typical public school in Vermont, which averages around 213 students.

Across the 5 schools in Champlain Valley Unified Union School District #56 (4,028 students total), Shelburne Community School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Shelburne Community School reports that nearly all students (89%) are White. The remainder comes out to 6% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Chittenden County shows median household income runs about $96,759, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Chittenden County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,894 students), Shelburne Community School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Orchard School, roughly 4.3 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 849 students in 2018 compared to 788 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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