Waterford Elementary School

Waterford Elementary School is a compact K-5 school in Waterford, Vermont, one of the schools within Caledonia Cooperative Unified School District #78. The school educates 140 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Vermont's public schools average about 213 students each, so Waterford Elementary School sits 34% leaner than that benchmark.

Waterford Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Caledonia Cooperative Unified School District #78, a district that serves 348 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Waterford Elementary School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 51% of students at Waterford Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Caledonia County (around 60%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Caledonia County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,970 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Caledonia County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,218 students), of which Waterford Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Concord Graded/Middle School, roughly 2.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Waterford Elementary School.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

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