VISUALIZED AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS · VT
Vermont Public Schools
The canvas comes first: every public school district in Vermont, drawn from the federal boundary files. The data layers — enrollment change, funding, teachers, achievement — are built on top of this map, Missouri-style, in phases.
THE DISTRICT MAP
School district boundaries
Hover any district for its name. Boundaries are the 2024–25 school-year files from NCES EDGE / U.S. Census TIGER.
MAP IN PREPARATION
The Vermont district boundary file hasn’t been generated yet.
Run scripts/make_boundaries.sh to rebuild boundaries/vermont.geojson, then redeploy.
Source: NCES EDGE Composite School District Boundaries, 2024–25 (via U.S. Census TIGER/Line). Unified and elementary districts shown; secondary districts omitted.
120 districts are drawn on this map — 64 unified and 56 elementary.
How districts are drawn here. Vermont has separate elementary and secondary school districts whose territories overlap. To keep the map readable, it shows unified districts plus elementary districts — together they tile the state exactly, with no gaps and no overlaps. The 11 secondary districts are not drawn, because they sit on top of the elementary districts rather than beside them. Data joined to this map follows the same rule.
Vermont has an extra layer. Vermont is the only state where the Census also maintains supervisory unions and supervisory districts — administrative bodies that provide services across member districts rather than governing territory of their own. The 51 supervisory entities are not drawn here; this map shows the districts that actually hold the territory.