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.
TEACHER PAY
What Vermont pays its teachers
A first look, from the National Education Association’s 2024–25 salary benchmarks. These are Vermont statewide averages of district salary schedules; a district-by-district map is the next layer (see the note below).
$46,963
Average starting teacher salary — bachelor’s degree, no experience.
NEA 2024–25 Benchmark Report
$87,585
Average top-of-schedule salary — the highest step and lane a teacher can reach.
NEA 2024–25 Benchmark Report
157
of Vermont’s 181 school districts had salary data reported (86.7%).
NEA 2024–25 Benchmark Report
Source: National Education Association, 2024–2025 Teacher Salary Benchmark Report (April 2026), state tables ST-1 and ST-4. Figures are unweighted averages of district salary schedules; “starting” = bachelor’s degree with no experience, “top of schedule” = the highest step and lane. For reference, the national average starting salary was $48,112.
The district map is the next layer. A district-by-district salary map for Vermont is being built from federal finance data — NCES teacher counts and the U.S. Census F-33 school-finance survey — to show an
average salary per district (a derived measure, and labeled as one). Until it lands, this page carries the verified statewide figures above. For the fully built version of this theme, see the Missouri flagship’s
Teacher Pay page.