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Quick Stats

Founded in 1997

  • Two campuses:
    • Five-acre main campus on Green Mountain Drive, South Burlington, Vermont, USA
    • 55-acre Outdoor Education Center at 2369 Spear Street, Charlotte, Vermont
  • Accredited by the the Association of Independent Schools of New England (AISNE)
  • Member of National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and holds “Recognized School” status from the Vermont State Board of Education
  • Grades 6-12, coeducational
  • Average class size of 12 students
  • More than 80% of faculty members hold advanced degrees
  • Total enrollment of 109 students in 2023-24
  • Up to 16.5% of operating budget allocated annually to financial aid awards
  • SAT Averages, Vermont Commons School Class of 2022:
    • ERW: 701
    • Math: 651
    • TOTAL: 1352
  • U.S. National Averages, Class of 2021:
    • ERW: 528
    • Math: 523
    • TOTAL: 1051
  • State of Vermont Averages, Class of 2021:
    • ERW: 559
    • Math: 545
    • TOTAL: 1103
  • Current students come from the following towns: Bristol, Burlington, Charlotte, Colchester, Essex, Essex Junction, Fairfax, Fayston, Hinesburg, Huntington, Lincoln, Montpelier, Richmond, Shelburne, South Burlington, St. Albans, Stowe, Underhill, Waitsfield, Waterbury, Westford, Weybridge, Williston and Winooski
  • Since our founding, each graduating senior from Vermont Commons applies to college and virtually all of them are admitted to their first or second choice college or university. A few of the colleges our recent graduates have been accepted to include: American University, Bentley College, Brandeis University, Bryn Mawr College, Carleton College, Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University, the Center for Cartoon Studies, Colorado College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Eckerd College, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Franklin Olin College of Engineering, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Grinnell College, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Kenyon College, Middlebury College, Mount Allison University, Mount Holyoke College, New York University, Northeastern University, Penn State, Purdue University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Sarah Lawrence, The Savannah College of Art and Design, Skidmore College, Smith College, Swarthmore College, University of California – San Diego, University of Houston, University of Notre Dame, University of Rochester, University of Southern California, University of Vermont, Vassar College, Washington University in St. Louis, Willamette University, Yale University, and Yeshiva University
  • The Encounter Week Program may include backpacking, canoeing, or snowshoeing, arts, writing or cooking, trips to the Sonoran Borderlands and Acadia National Parks, service trips to St. John National Park, USVI, as well as international travel to our sibling school in Lima, Peru and other international trips where ecology and/or culture may be studied and community service provided
  • The Core Group Service program offers community service opportunities to every student, every year with a variety of local community partners such as the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps, ANEW Place, American Red Cross, United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Merrymac Farm Sanctuary, and Harbor Village Senior Communities
  • Competitive sport teams in volleyball (state champions), and Ultimate Frisbee (state champions), cross country running, and basketball

Scholarship. Community. Global Responsibility.

Students emerge from their time at Vermont Commons School intrinsically motivated to seek out their role for improving the world, with the skills and competencies to do so.