Waitsfield Elementary School

Waitsfield Elementary School is a primary school of tight-knit scale in Waitsfield, Vermont, run under Harwood Unified Union School District #60, enrolling 152 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 29% below the typical public school in Vermont, which averages around 213 students.

Harwood Unified Union School District #60 comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 1,774 students; Waitsfield Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Waitsfield Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%).

In terms of school funding signals, Waitsfield Elementary School lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Washington County put the typical household earns roughly $83,449 per year, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Washington County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,465 students), Waitsfield Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Fayston Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.4 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Waitsfield Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Waitsfield Elementary School has grew 13%, going from 135 students in 2018 to 152 in 2025.

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