[Cozycoupe1]

What are some of the best school districts in Rutland County?

Looking to move within 30 min of Rutland City.

Love the downtown of Woodstock, but it’s far. What towns do you recommend closer to Rutland?

[jackmccullough]

I have a lot of friends who live in Brandon, and I would check that out.

[vter]

I agree...check out Brandon. On the southern side of Rutland check out Wallingford.

[cgregor]

I would suggest moving to a town where people want to improve their school rather than just trusting the opinions of others. That way, you'll know how to get what you want with other people who want the same thing you do.

[Biker53]

Just speaking to the schools part, after Rutland High School itself, the next largest Middle/High School in Rutland County is Mill River in Clarendon. It is a 4 town district (Clarendon, Wallingford, Shrewsbury, Tinmouth). When it comes to high schools, size matters no matter how many superlatives locals may attribute to their tiny high schools. It is all but impossible to provide a robust curriculum if you only have 25 or 50 students per grade. Being in the Mill River district is your best bet for schools in Rutland County. Each of the 4 towns has an elementary school.

My wife is a volunteer for a national scholarship program and has told me many times how the kids at the tiny small town high schools she sees just cannot compete with the larger suburban high schools. It is not that the kids aren't just as smart, it is that those tiny high school kids just didn't have much in the way of curriculum.

The writing is on the wall that the sheer cost of education in VT is going to result in many of the small Middle/High Schools being forced to merge into larger schools. My guess is we're going to see lots of change within a decade. People will fight it with great passion, but what we are currently doing is unsustainable, and will get worse as student enrollments continue to drop. Just look at Black River over in Ludlow whose closure has just been announced after years of people fighting to keep it open. Some of those kids, at least the ones from Mt Holly, will likely come up to Mill River.

[GeoffD]

Killington has a gold-plated elementary school and tuitions out to Woodstock. Bridgewater also tuitions out to Woodstock but has their own elementary school. If you're in West Bridgewater near the Killington line, Rutland is 20 minutes.

[arctichomesteader]

Driving Sherburne Pass all winter everyday for work from Bridgewater or Killington to Rutland would get old to me, the state's done a lousy job plowing and salting it the last few years.

[Carolinawren42]

Yup, I lived in Bridgewater and killington area for a few years, and I agree that in the winter that commute will be rough. But as for me personally, I would not live in Rutland. I haven't lived in the area in almost 10 yrs, so perhaps it's different now. But it's a bit rough around the edges. I lived in Woodstock for years. So if you "like woodstock" chances are you will not find what you are looking for Rutland. Killington is nice though! It's rural but the schools are good, and folks are nice.