Walden School

Walden School is one of the very small primary schools in Walden, Vermont, run under Caledonia Cooperative Unified School District #78, with 73 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 66% smaller than the state mean of about 213.

Caledonia Cooperative Unified School District #78 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 348 students; Walden School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Walden School lists that nearly all students (99%) are White.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Walden School has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.5:1. The state averages around 11.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Caledonia County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Caledonia County put the typical household earns roughly $69,970 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Caledonia County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,218 students), Walden School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Danville School, around 4.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

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